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[GK86]

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Use the ustream link.

http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv

Some info:

The crew members of Expedition 43 launch to space today, and two of them will spend a full year aboard the International Space Station. Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko won't walk the Earth again until March of 2016, and their 342-day stay will break the old ISS record held by Michael Lopez-Alegria Mikhail Tyurin — both of whom spent seven months on the station between 2006 and 2007. Kelly and Kornienko will be joined by cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who will return later this year.

The 336-ton Soyuz-FG rocket they will ride will get them to the ISS in just five hours. The entire process, from the launch to the opening of the hatch aboard the station, will be televised live by NASA TV, which is embedded above. Live coverage begins at 2:30PM ET, and the crew is scheduled to lift off at 3:42PM ET from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

 

[terrisus]

Meh, it's not landing on a comet :þ

 

[GK86]

Meh, it's not landing on a comet :þ

This is better. This is to prepare us for Mars. Red Rocks!

 

[TylerD]

Thanks for the heads up. Going to take a late lunch at watch this at home.

 

[jett]

Wow a year stuck in that tin can.

 

[terrisus]

This is better. This is to prepare us for Mars. Red Rocks!

 

[TylerD]

Watching on the NASA TV Roku channel. Ready for the Kazakh night sky to be lit up.

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

A feed of it just went up on The Science Channel as well.

EDIT: Science Channel feed is over

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Flawless launch and ascent so far.

 

[terrisus]

Oh boo, I forgot about this.

I blame the fact that the OP used "EST" as opposed to the current "EDT"

 

[TylerD]

Oh boo, I forgot about this.

I blame the fact that the OP used "EST" as opposed to the current "EDT"

You are really something else...


Watching this kind of stuff live is awesome.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Soyuz is an amazing craft and a workhorse. Shame NASA moved to the shuttle program. I'm sure a modified Saturn rocket could have been just as effective for LEO operations.