The next shuttle to the International Space Station is launching this week, but while the launch will be taking place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA has invited Americans to watch the launch – which includes one NASA astronaut – on the big screen at New York City’s Times Square.

According to an article from NBC News, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft will shuttle three astronauts to the International Space Station, including American crew member Rick Mastracchio, a Russian commander named Mikhail Tyurin, and Japanese astronaut, Koichi Wakata. The launch is currently scheduled for 11:14 p.m. EST this Wednesday, and Americans will be able to watch the whole thing happen from the massive Toshiba screen that towers over Times Square. The actual broadcast should commence roughly an hour prior to launch.

The three astronauts aboard the Soyuz will take their place aboard the International Space Station, alongside six other astronauts. The current residents of the ISS include NASA vets, Mike Hopkins and Karen Nyberg, as well as three Russian astronauts and a single member of the European Space Agency.

The November 6 launch will closely coincide with the International Space Station’s 13th anniversary in space. The first manned ISS mission launched on Halloween 2000 and docked at the space station two days later. That first launch was also made by a Russian Soyuz spacefcraft.

In addition, the first ISS module launch – and the beginning of construction on the space station – is also nearing an anniversary. The initial module, a cargo and external fuel storage unit, launched on November 20, 1998. Over the course of several hundred spacewalks, astronauts have worked to build those early modules up to what is now the size of a football field, with huge solar panels on either side and housing module in the center. Today, the space station weighs nearly 925,000 pounds.

Since its early launches, the International Space Station has also seen more than 200 different crew members, hailing from all over the world , as well as some 60,000 Earth orbits and millions of miles traveled. The space station serves as a once in a lifetime research lab where national borders and ethnic differences disappear. According to NASA’s William Gerstenmaier, giving Americans the chance to watch the next ISS launch from “the most cosmopolitan city in the United States” is fitting the diversity of the collaborative ISS vision.

NASA has taken to broadcasting high-profile launches from Times Square recently. This year alone, NYC residents have gotten the chance to watch the launch of a moon probe and a Mars rover.