On April 7 the Russian Federal Space Agency’s (ROSCOSMOS) Soyuz MS-27 will launch Soyuz 2.1a, at 10:47 PM PDT into low Earth orbit carrying two cosmonauts and one astronaut to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The crew consists of Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and NASA astronaut Jonathan “Jonny” Kim.
The launch is for human exploration and costs $80 million.
The forecast calls for a temperature of 59°F, broken clouds, 68% cloud cover and a wind speed of 9mph.
The site, 31/6, has witnessed the launch of 421 rockets, including 421 orbital launch attempts. While Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan, has been the site for 1554 rocket launches.
