NASA, ever the gracious host, will be providing live coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft's launch and docking as it brings approximately three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). Because even astronauts get hungry, and apparently, there's no Uber Eats in low Earth orbit.

The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 12:15 p.m. EDT (9:15 p.m. Baikonur time) on Wednesday, Sept. 9, atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA's live launch coverage will begin at 12 p.m., giving you just enough time to make popcorn.

After a two-day journey - because space is vast and traffic is terrible - Progress will dock autonomously to the Poisk module's space-facing port at 2:37 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11. NASA's arrival coverage will start at 1:45 p.m., so you can witness the cosmic equivalent of a parallel parking job.

NASA will stream these events live across various platforms, because what else are you going to do on a Wednesday afternoon? Watch cat videos? Please.

The spacecraft will remain docked to the orbiting laboratory for about five months before departing to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, where it will harmlessly burn up over the Pacific Ocean - a more dignified end than most of our New Year's resolutions.

Before Progress 96 arrives, the Progress 94 spacecraft will undock from the space station at approximately 11:18 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 7, for its own planned destructive re-entry. NASA won't stream that undocking, probably because it's not as exciting as watching paint dry in space.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the ISS, advancing scientific knowledge and making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The space station helps NASA understand and overcome the challenges of human spaceflight, expand commercial opportunities in low Earth orbit, and build the foundation for long-duration missions to the Moon as part of the Artemis program, and eventually to Mars. Because apparently, one dusty rock wasn't enough.