Fifty years to the day that humans stepped on the Moon in a giant leap for humanity, three space travelers are launching to our orbiting laboratory. NASA’s Andrew Morgan, Roscosmos’ Alexander Skvortsov and European Space Agency’s Luca Parmitano will launch at 12:28 p.m. EDT aboard the Soyuz MS-13 rocket for a six journey journey to the International Space Station. Tune in starting at 11:30 a.m. EDT to see launch coverage:
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Q&A with Astronaut Nick Hague on Launch Anomaly and Safe Landing
On Thurs., Oct. 11, 2018, Nick Hague’s planned launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft ended minutes later in a safe landing on Earth, after an issue with the rocket’s booster: https://youtu.be/LUwnLFKfuBE He answered questions for the first time on Oct. 16, in a Facebook Live event with NASA’s followers.
Learn more about the incident: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/astronaut-cosmonaut-safe-after-abort-during-launch-to-international-space-station
Learn more about astronaut Nick Hague: https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/tyler-nick-hague -
Principia launch highlights
ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and commander Yuri Malenchenko were launched into space 15 Decemeber 11:03 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The launch marks the start of Tim Peake’s six-month Principia mission on the International Space Station running over 30 scientific experiments for ESA.
Follow Tim Peake via http://timpeake.esa.int and follow the whole mission on ESA’s Principia blog: http://blogs.esa.int/principia.
Full launch replay here:
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2015/12/Principia_launch