--- description: A new crew will be sent to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft Wednesday. See the launch here. title: Watch: Launch of the International Space Station's New Crew image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Space](/tag/space/) ## Space Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Live: The Launch of the Latest Crew to the International Space Station by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2016 7:11 AM CUT by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 19, 2016 7:11 AM CUT A new crew of three is set to be launched into space Wednesday, and will take over the International Space Station from Friday till late February. U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko will be [launched](https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2016/10/18/new-crew-set-to-blast-off-after-cygnus-cargo-launch/ "undefined") to space aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft, set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 08:05 UTC (4:05 a.m. EDT). The launch had originally been scheduled on Sept. 23, but was [pushed back](http://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-02.html "undefined") by a short circuit in the spacecraft. Engineers had to fix the problem, a bent wire behind the cosmonaut seats, before proceeding with the launch. Watch the launch live above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4536300/watch-live-launch-latest-crew-international-space-station-soyuz-ms-02/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4536300/watch-live-launch-latest-crew-international-space-station-soyuz-ms-02/"},"headline":"Watch Live: The Launch of the Latest Crew to the International Space Station","datePublished":"2016-10-19T07:11:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:16:26.081Z","description":"The mission had been delayed for three weeks because of a short circuit","url":"https://time.com/4536300/watch-live-launch-latest-crew-international-space-station-soyuz-ms-02/","keywords":["Space","space travel"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"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/4536300/watch-live-launch-latest-crew-international-space-station-soyuz-ms-02/","name":"Watch Live: The Launch of the Latest Crew to the International Space Station"}}]}] ```