For those of us who enjoy the roar of a big rocket on a Wednesday afternoon ...

NASA TV will broadcast the ISS Progress 56 cargo craft launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday at 5:44 p.m. EDT on a 4-orbit, 6-hour fast track rendezvous to dock with the station's Pirs docking compartment at 11:30 p.m. EDT.

Live NASA Television coverage of the Progress launch begins at 5:30 p.m. EDT and returns at 11 p.m. EDT for docking coverage.

Press release: http://www.nasa.gov/content/next-station-cargo-spacecraft-rolls-out-to -pad/

NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv (or, I watch it on my Roku streaming box)

-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT Journal