July 28 (UPI) -- The Soyuz MS-05 mission is set to launch, carrying the Expedition 52 crew to the International Space Station.
The Soyuz-MS spacecraft and its rocket are ready and waiting on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The duo are scheduled to blast off at 11:41 a.m. EDT.
The launch and flight will be streamed live on NASA TV.
The spacecraft will carry cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, who will serve as commander of mission, as well as flight engineers Randy Bresnik from NASA and Paolo Nespoli from the European Space Agency, to the International Space Station.
"The trio will take a six-hour, 19-minute ride from Earth to the station's Rassvet module," NASA wrote in a blog update.
The 6 p.m. docking will also be streamed live on NASA TV.
Ryazanskiy, Bresnik and Nespoli will spend five months living and working on the space station. While they're there, they'll spend many hours in the weightless laboratories, conducting a variety of science experiments related to biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science.
