{"id":114360,"date":"2020-10-13T18:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/three-space-travelers-countdown-to-early-wednesday-launch"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:23:26","slug":"three-space-travelers-countdown-to-early-wednesday-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/three-space-travelers-countdown-to-early-wednesday-launch","title":{"rendered":"Three Space Travelers Countdown to Early Wednesday Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-space-travelers-countdown-to-early-wednesday-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(From left) NASA astronaut Kate Rubins with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will launch to the space station for a six-month research mission. A trio of space travelers, including NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, is s\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A trio of space travelers, including NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/kathleen-rubins\">Kate Rubins<\/a>, is scheduled to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\">International Space Station<\/a> at 1:45 a.m. EDT (10:45 a.m. Kazakhstan time) Wednesday, Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 12:45 a.m., NASA Television and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\">website<\/a> will provide live coverage of the crew\u2019s launch. Teams at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are making final preparations for the liftoff of Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.<\/p>\n<p>The launch will send the crew members on a two-orbit, three-hour journey to the space station, where they will join Expedition 63 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/christopher-j-cassidy\">Commander Chris Cassidy<\/a> of NASA and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, temporarily increasing the orbiting laboratory\u2019s population to six people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(From left) NASA astronaut Kate Rubins with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will launch to the space station for a six-month research mission. A trio of space travelers, including NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, is s\u2026 A trio of space travelers, including NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, is scheduled to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-17 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}