Tag: Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Live coverage: Soyuz crew capsule arrives at space station
Live coverage of the Expedition 50 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Soyuz takes off, heads for space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz rocket lifted off at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST) Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls By the light of a waning moon, a Russian rocket carrying a veteran cosmonaut, a French flight engineer making his first flight and America’s most experienced female astronaut blasted off and streaked smoothly…
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Three-person crew ready to embark on space station expedition
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a fit check rehearsal with their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Alexander Vysotsky A veteran Russian cosmonaut, a rookie French flight engineer and a record-setting NASA astronaut making her third trip to the…
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Soyuz crew launcher rolled out for liftoff from Kazakhstan
The Soyuz booster that will send the International Space Station’s next three residents into orbit later this week rolled out of an integration hangar early Monday and rode a railroad car to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The rocket will lift off at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST) Thursday from Baikonur,…
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Video: Soyuz rocket rolled to pad for Expedition 50 crew launch
The Russian Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft and booster rocket were rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday in preparation for liftoff Thursday at 3:20 p.m. EST (2020 GMT) on a two-day trek to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space…
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Photos: Space station crew rockets into orbit from Kazakhstan
The three newest residents of the International Space Station sped into orbit Wednesday aboard a Soyuz launcher after liftoff into an overcast sky over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz MS-02 spaceship blasted off from pad 31 at Baikonur at 0805 GMT (4:05 a.m. EDT; 2:05 p.m. Baikonur time) Wednesday. The three-stage Soyuz booster…
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Soyuz crew blasts off from Kazakhstan
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA shuttle veteran blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday and set off after the International Space Station. Running nearly a month late because or difficult work to repair a damaged cable in the Soyuz MS-02/48S command…
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Live coverage: Three-man crew docks with space station
Live coverage of the Expedition 49 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Repaired Soyuz prepped to launch three to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko pose for a picture in their Sokol launch and entry spacesuits outside the Soyuz MS-02 spaceship. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov Running nearly a month late because of work to repair a damaged cable, a Russian Soyuz…
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Russians delay next crew launch to station
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation inside the Soyuz rocket’s nose fairing in this Sept. 15 photo. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov The next launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying three space station fliers has been delayed indefinitely after testing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan revealed an unspecified technical problem, the Russian space agency…