--- title: Watch Live as 3 Astronauts Launch for the International Space Station description: They're set to stay in space for five months canonical: https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/ author: Jonathan Woods article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-22T20:21:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T04:03:37.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Live as 3 Astronauts Launch for Space og:description: They're set to stay in space for five months og:url: https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d09ac982d1d1a4b/69885c10e20a87374ea8c64c/nasa-roscosmos-launch-kazakhstan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3997 og:image:height: 2248 og:image:alt: The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft before launch. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live as 3 Astronauts Launch for Space twitter:description: They're set to stay in space for five months twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d09ac982d1d1a4b/69885c10e20a87374ea8c64c/nasa-roscosmos-launch-kazakhstan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 3 Astronauts Launch for the International Space Station > Sponsored content. 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The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft before launch. Aubrey Gemignani—NASA  by [Jonathan Woods](https://time.com/author/jonathan-d-woods/)  ## Jonathan Woods Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:03 AM UTCPublished: Jul 22, 2015 8:21 PM UTC Three astronauts who will spend the next five months in space launched from the desert in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The astronauts launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket at 5:02 p.m. EST. Over six hours, the crew orbited the Earth four times before catching up to the space station, docking at 10:46 p.m. EST. The astronauts’ launch was delayed after two consecutive failures of cargo vehicles that were meant to deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The first setback occurred in April when the Russian Federal Space Agency was not able to regain control of a vehicle after launch. As a result, the Progress vehicle and the cargo it was carrying burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. The second failure occurred on June 28 when the SpaceX Falcon exploded just two minutes after the launch. The unsuccessful supply missions created a ripple effect through the public and private agencies that work with the International Space Station, delaying American astronaut Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren’s planned first spacewalk, which was supposed to occur between Aug. 10 and Labor Day. The failures also delayed work on the reconfiguration of the space station for the arrival of commercial cargo and crew vehicles. The three astronauts arriving at the International Space Station on Wednesday include Lindgren and Kimiya Yui, who are flying for the first time. They are led by Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko. The crew is slated to stay in space for five months, returning on Dec. 22. The trio will join Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, who have already been in space for 117 days. They launched in the early hours of March 28. _TIME is following the yearlong mission between American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko._ [_Click here to watch the series_](http://time.com/space)_, or watch Episode 1, “Leaving Home,” below._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/"},"headline":"Watch 3 Astronauts Launch for the International Space Station","datePublished":"2015-07-22T20:21:23.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T04:03:37.000Z","description":"They're set to stay in space for five months","url":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/","keywords":["Space","space station","A Year In Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d09ac982d1d1a4b/69885c10e20a87374ea8c64c/nasa-roscosmos-launch-kazakhstan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jonathan Woods","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jonathan-d-woods/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d09ac982d1d1a4b/69885c10e20a87374ea8c64c/nasa-roscosmos-launch-kazakhstan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft before launch.","caption":"The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft before launch.","creditText":"Aubrey Gemignani—NASA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/","name":"Watch 3 Astronauts Launch for the International Space Station"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home","description":"A Year in Space - Ep.1: Leaving Home","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/6ookw4W2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2021-03-11T18:13:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/6ookw4W2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/","duration":"PT13M31S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3967715/watch-live-astronauts-launch-space-station/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```