Space station - WKTV Journal

NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos’ Oleg Novitskyand Pyotr Dubrov head off to the International Space Station. (NASA)

By Kelly Taylor
WKTV Program Director

On Friday, April 9, WKTV will be featuring live coverage of the launch of the International Space Station Expedition 65 Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. Coverage starts at 2:45 a.m., with the launch scheduled for 3:42 a.m. The coverage includes video b-roll of the crew’s launch day pre-launch activities.

NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos’ Oleg Novitskyand Pyotr Dubrov head off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The docking of the Expedition 65 Soyuz MS-18 will take place at 6:15 a.m. and the hatch opening at 8:30 a.m.

At 1 p.m., NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prepares for takeoff. For it’s first flight, the helicopter will take off a few feet from the ground, hover in the air for about 20-30 seconds and land.

This will be a major milestone as it is the very first powered flight in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars.

For more information on NASA TV or the International Space Station, log on to www.nasa.gov.

NASA TV can be seen on the WKTV 26 Government Channel on Comcast and AT&T U-verse 99 Government Channel 99.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will take it first flight on Mars on Friday. (NASA)

NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos’ Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov are scheduled to launch to the space station on Friday, April 9. (NASA)

By Kelly Taylor
WKTV Program Manager

On Friday, March 19, WKTV will be featuring live coverage of the relocation of the International Space Station Expedition 64 Soyuz MS-1 spacecraft from the earth-facing Rassvet module to the space-facing Poisk module. Coverage starts at 12:15 p.m., with the undocking scheduled for 12:38 p.m. and the redocking scheduled for 1:07 p.m.

Watch as Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA and Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-SverchkovProgress from the Russian Space Agency Roscomos take a spin around their orbital neighborhood in the Soyuz MS-17 to relocate the spacecraft and free up the port in preparation for the arrival of three new crew members.

NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos’ Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov are scheduled to launch to the space station on Friday, April 9, in the Soyuz MS-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.