The launch of the manned spacecraft "Soyuz MS-26" will be broadcast on street screens across Russia on September 11. The "Soyuz-2.1a" carrier rocket will go into space at 19:23:12 Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The crew includes Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, as well as NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
The broadcast will be organized by the MAER media holding and will cover major cities in Russia, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, and Vladivostok. The event can be watched in real time on street screens, allowing more than 7.5 million people to see the launch.
It is planned that the spacecraft will dock to the "Rassvet" small research module on the ISS at 22:33 Moscow time. The expedition will last 202 days and includes spacewalks and the arrival of the "Progress MS-29" and "Progress MS-30" cargo ships. The return of the 71st expedition crew to Earth is scheduled for September 23.
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