NASA will supply reside release and docking protection of a Roscosmos shipment spacecraft handing over just about 3 heaps of meals, gas, and provides to the Expedition 71 staff aboard the Global Area Station.
The unpiloted Development 89 spacecraft is scheduled to release at 11:20 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 14 (8:20 a.m. Baikonur time, Thursday, Aug. 15), on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Are living release protection will start at 11 p.m. on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s site. Learn to circulate NASA+ thru a lot of platforms together with social media.
After a two-day in-orbit adventure to the station, the spacecraft will autonomously dock to the aft port of the Zvezda provider module at 1:56 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 17. NASA’s protection of rendezvous and docking will start at 1 a.m., on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s site.
The spacecraft will stay docked on the station for about six months prior to departing for a re-entry into Earth’s surroundings to eliminate trash loaded via the staff.
The Global Area Station is a convergence of science, era, and human innovation that allows analysis no longer conceivable on Earth. For greater than 23 years, NASA has supported a continuing U.S. human presence aboard the orbiting laboratory, wherein astronauts have discovered to reside and paintings in area for prolonged classes of time. The gap station is a springboard for creating a low Earth financial system and NASA’s subsequent nice leaps in exploration, together with missions to the Moon beneath Artemis and, in the long run, human exploration of Mars.
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For more info concerning the Global Area Station, its analysis, and staff, consult with:
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Jimi Russell / Julian Coltre
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