When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: GCTC[embedded content]Three people will launch toward the International Space Station on Tuesday (July 14), and you can watch the action live.NASA’s Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina are scheduled to lift off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1347 GMT; 7:47 p.m. local time in Baikonur).AdvertisementAdvertisementYou can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency’s YouTube channel. Coverage will begin at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1245 GMT).NASA astronaut Anil Menon (left) and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, Soyuz MS-29 prime crew members, pose for a portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. | Credit: GCTCThe trio, flying in Russia’s Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft, will catch up to the International Space Station (ISS) after just two orbits, docking with the outpost at about 1:56 p.m. EDT (1746 GMT).You can watch rendezvous and arrival here at Space.com as well, beginning at 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT). There will be a bit of a break after docking, then coverage will resume at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT) ahead of the opening of the hatches between the Soyuz and the ISS, which is expected around 3:55 p.m. EDT (1955 GMT).The MS-29 trio will join the seven astronauts already living aboard the ISS — NASA’s Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, and Chris Williams, the European Space Agency’s Sophie Adenot, and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev, and Andrey Fedyaev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.AdvertisementAdvertisementThis will be the first spaceflight for Menon, who was selected as a NASA astronaut candidate in December 2021, in the agency’s Group 23. He’s married to Anna Menon, who was picked in the next astronaut candidate class, Group 24, in September 2025.Anna Menon has already been to space, though not with NASA. In September 2024, while an employee of SpaceX, she flew on the company’s Polaris Dawn mission to Earth orbit. That five-day flight, which was funded and commanded by current NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, featured the first-ever commercial spacewalk and reached a maximum altitude of 870 miles (1,400.7 kilometers) — higher than any previous crewed Earth-orbiting mission had gotten.Anil Menon is a former SpaceX-er as well; he was the company’s first-ever flight surgeon.MS-29’s flight will be the second-ever space mis …
