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Russia will launch a cargo refueling spacecraft to the International Space Station today (April 24), and you can see the launch and docking live online.
The unmanned Progress 75 cargo refueling ship will take off on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tonight at 9:51 p.m. EDT (0151 GMT on April 25). It is slated to arrive at the lab in orbit on Saturday (April 25) at 1:12 a.m. EDT (0512 GMT), approximately three hours after takeoff.
NASA TV will provide live coverage of the launch starting at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT); Live coverage of the spacecraft’s arrival at the International Space Station will begin on Saturday at 12:30 a.m. EDT (0430 GMT). You can Watch it live on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, or directly through the agency’s live stream.
Related: How Russia’s Progress spaceships work (infographic)
Inside the cargo ship are nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 63 three-person crew, which includes NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
The spacecraft will spend about seven months docked in the laboratory in orbit. It is slated to depart in December, when it will burn in Earth’s atmosphere.
There are currently two additional cargo refueling ships docked at the station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, called NG-13, arrived at the station in February and is scheduled to depart in mid-May. Russia’s Progress 74 spacecraft, which launched in December, will remain docked at the station until July.
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