NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and landing of Progress 86 , carrying approximately three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 70 crew to the International Space Station.
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The robotic spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 4:25 a.m. EST on Friday, December 1 (2:25 p.m. Baikonur time), aboard a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
NASA coverage will begin at 4 a.m. on the NASA+ via the web or the app . Coverage will also be streamed live on NASA Television, YouTube and the agency's website. Learn how to watch NASA TV across a variety of platforms, including social media.
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The Progress spacecraft will deploy on a two-day mission to the station, leading to an automatic docking with the Poisk module at 6:14 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 3. Coverage of the rendezvous and docking will begin at 5:30 a.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website.
The spacecraft will remain in the orbital laboratory for about six months, and then will detach for a destructive, but safe, re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in order to discard the waste loaded by the crew.
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The International Space Station is a combination of science, technology, and human innovation that enables research not possible on Earth. For more than 23 years, NASA has supported a continuous American human presence in the orbiting laboratory, where people have learned to live and work in space for extended periods of time. The space station is an incubator for the development of commercial space destinations and a low-Earth orbit economy, as well as NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including the Artemis to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars.
Source: nasa.gov
