Spacewalk Preps Under Way As ISS Gears Up for Starliner and Cargo Craft Arrivals

The Expedition 71 crew continues gearing up for a trio of spacewalks while a cargo craft packed with food, fuel, and supplies orbits Earth headed toward the International Space Station (ISS). Back on Earth, two astronauts are counting down to their launch to the orbital lab aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the ISS following a launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baikonur time) on May 30, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. After a two-day in-orbit journey to the station, the spacecraft will automatically dock to the space-facing port of orbiting laboratory’s Poisk module at 7:47 a.m. Saturday, June 1.