New International Space Station Crew Launches Today: Watch It Live

[Judi Lynn]

By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer | September 12, 2017 10:57am ET

Three Expedition 53 crewmembers will blast off to the International Space Station today (Sept. 12), and you can watch the liftoff live.

NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba will join Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin in the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft, which is slated to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:17 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT). You can watch a live stream of the launch here on Space.com beginning at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), courtesy of NASA TV.

The trio will take the fast-track path to the space station, arriving at 10:57 p.m. EDT this evening, 5 hours and 40 minutes after the launch (0257 GMT on Sept. 13). You can watch live coverage of the Soyuz docking, too, starting at 10:15 p.m. EDT (0215 on Sept. 13). [Space Station Photos: Expedition 53 Mission Crew in Orbit]

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[Warpy]

1. Science Channel just broke into their program

to show the launch. I hope it's dull and routine.

[shenmue]

2. Squee