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.
This will be the fifteenth overall Soyuz port relocation and the first since August 2019.
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.
