NTV VF Expedition 65 Pre Launch Preparations and Launch

Expedition 65 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos and Mark Vande Hei of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a three-hour journey to the International Space Station and the start of a six-month mission on the outpost. The footage contains the crew’s prelaunch activities that included their departure from their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters, their suit-up in the Cosmodrome’s Integration Facility, walk out to their crew bus and arrival at the launch pad to board their spacecraft.