By Kelly Taylor
WKTV
WKTV will be featuring the launch of the Expedition 59-60/Soyuz MS-12 Spacecraft to the International Space Station on WKTV Government 26 channel.
The launch is set for 3:41 p.m. Thursday, March 14. Coverage will begin at 2 p.m. Coverage will continue at 10:30 p.m. for the Hatch Opening and Welcoming Ceremony. The hatch is scheduled to open at around 11:10 p.m.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch, and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a six-hour journey to the International Space Station.
Koch, who was born in Michigan, and astronaut Anne McClain will be part of a the first all-female spacewalk set for March 29 with complete coverage on WKTV. Canadian Space Agency flight controller Kristen Facial will be supporting McClain and Koch on the console at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The spacewalk is part of three planned spacewalks during Expedition 59 to upgrade batteries on the International Space Station.
For more information on NASA TV or the International Space Station, log on to www.nasa.gov.
NASA TV can be seen on the WKTV 26 Government Channel on Comcast and AT&T U-verse 99 Government Channel 99.
