Expedition 68 Soyuz Rocket Rollout in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

Expedition 68 Soyuz Rocket Rollout in Kazakhstan | International Space Station

U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio prepares for launch to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz rocket. A Soyuz rocket is raised to vertical after having rolled out by train to the launch pad, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, at site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on Sept. 21.

Coverage will begin at 9 a.m. on NASA Television’s Public Channel, the NASA app, and on the agency’s website. 

Watch the Soyuz MS-22 launch online at: https://www.nasa.gov/live

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the  International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Victor Zelentsov

Image Date: September 18, 2022

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