View of Russian Cargo Spacecraft Rocket Launch | International Space Station

View of Russian Cargo Spacecraft Rocket Launch | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick: "Set my alarm and woke up in the middle my normal sleep period to capture this Прогресс cargo spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It felt pretty awesome to see another spaceship launching knowing it was coming to join us. Crew-9 is next!"

An unpiloted Russian Progress 89 cargo craft launched to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft delivered about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station.

The Roscosmos spacecraft arrived at the aft port of the orbiting laboratory’s Zvezda Service module at 1:53 a.m. EDT, Saturday, Aug. 17. It will remain docked for approximately six months before departing for a re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.

Image details: 340mm (50 to 500 lens), f7.1, ISO 500, 1/6400s

Expedition 71 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 71 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore

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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA-JSC/Astronaut Matthew Dominick

Image Date: Aug. 14, 2024

Release Date: Aug. 20, 2024

#NASA #Space #ISS #Science #Roscosmos #Роскосмос #CargoSpacecraft #SoyuzRocketLaunch #Союз #Progress89Mission #ProgressMS28Spacecraft #Cosmonauts #Astronaut #MatthewDominick #HumanSpaceflight #UnitedStates #Russia #Россия #Europe #Japan #Expedition70 #SpaceLaboratory #BaikonurCosmodrome #Kazakhstan #STEM #Education