NASA to Air Next Space Station Launch Live in Times Square

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By Amanda Wills2013-11-01 20:43:28 UTC

NASA will broadcast the next launch to the International Space Station in New York City's Times Square on Nov. 6 at 11:14 p.m. ET.

The three-person crew, which includes NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Russian Federal Space Agency Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, will launch in a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will join six other crew members who are already on the ISS.

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Hosted on the Toshiba Vision screen, the event will start at 10:15 p.m. and will end after a half hour of post-launch coverage at 11:45 p.m.

Although a space station crew launches every few months, NASA typically doesn't broadcast every flight in a large public forum (though does live stream every launch via NASA TV). This particular flight is special because it will be the first time since October 2009 that nine crew members have lived together on board the ISS.

This isn't the agency's first high-profile broadcast in New York City's famous center. NASA hosted a live video event in Times Square when the Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012.

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