The Soyuz rocket carrying the new Expedition 56 crew for the International Space Station has successfully launched into orbit.
Three astronauts are launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow morning (June 6), and you can watch their departure from Earth live.
NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst are scheduled to lift off aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tomorrow at 7:12 a.m. EDT (1112 GMT; 5:12 p.m. local Baikonur time).
You can watch the launch live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV; coverage begins at 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT).
The Soyuz rocket that will launch three space fliers toward the International Space Station on June 6, 2018, stands at the pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz is scheduled to arrive at the ISS Friday morning (June 8).
This image was taken May 20 at the Integration Facility of Baikonur Cosmodrome, the crew's launch site in Kazakhstan. »