Launch of cargo ship featured on WKTV Government Channel July 23

Photo from nasa.gov

By Shallom Kimanzi
WKTV Intern


The launch of the Progress 76 Cargo Craft will be featured live on the WKTV Government Channel 26 on Thursday, July 23.

The coverage starts at 10 a.m. with the launch scheduled for 10:26 a.m. from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS). A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket will launch the Progress 76 Cargo Craft.

Live coverage continues at 1 p.m. following the rendezvous and the docking of the craft to the ISS which is set to take place at 1:47 p.m. 

The Progress 76 Cargo Craft is an unmanned Russian Cargo Spacecraft used to deliver supplies since 1978 originally to the Soviet Space stations and now to the International Space Station.

Photo from nasa.gov

NASA TV can be seen on the WKTV 26 Government Channel on Comcast and AT&T U-verse Government Channel 99.

For more information on NASA TV or the International Space Station, log on to www.nasa.gov

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