NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Prepares for Russian Soyuz Rocket Launch

NASA Astronaut Frank Rubio Prepares for Russian Soyuz Rocket Launch

U.S. astronaut Frank Rubio prepares for launch to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz rocket. 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, 2022. In this image, Frank Rubio performs preflight checkouts in the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Rubio is scheduled for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

A Soyuz rocket was raised to vertical after having rolled out by train to the launch pad, Sunday, Sept. 18, at site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

Launch 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.

Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Release Date: September 16, 2022

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