Liftoff is scheduled for 11:55 a.m. EDT (1555 GMT).
A Russian
carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov is scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday at 11:55 a.m. EDT . . Coverage will start at 11:15 a.m. EDT .It'll be a quick trip to the orbiting lab for the Russian trio; their Soyuz is scheduled to dock with the station's Prichal module at 3:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, just three hours after launch. You can watch the milestone live beginning at 2:15 p.m. EDT .
Russia has launched many Soyuz vehicles to the space station over the years, but Friday's mission is hardly commonplace. It will be the first launch that Russia has conducted since itThe United States and other countries imposed new economic sanctions on Russia after the invasion, some of which affect the nation's space program. As a result, Russia's federal space agency, Roscosmos,
to American companies and halted Soyuz launches from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, among other measures.
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