Three spaceflyers are set to fly to the International Space Station on Thursday, and you can watch the liftoff live online. - NBCNewsMACH
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin will ride into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 p.m. ET . NASA TV's coverage of the launch will begin at 2 p.m. ET.
The trio will spend six hours journeying to the space station, with an estimated arrival at 9:07 p.m. ET. It will be Koch’s first spaceflight. Hague and Ovchinin were originally scheduled to fly to the space station in October 2018, but a rocket malfunction shortly after launchHague, Koch and Ovchinin will join NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, who are all already aboard the space station.
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