Tag: David Saint-Jacques
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Canadian astronaut to join NASA’s first crewed Artemis mission around the moon
The moon as seen from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A Canadian space flier will join three NASA crew members on the first piloted flight of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft around the moon, becoming the first non-U.S. astronaut on a lunar voyage, officials announced last week. There will be a second…
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with international crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft fires its “soft landing rockets” at the moment of touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, his Canadian co-pilot and a NASA flight engineer boarded their Soyuz spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth…
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American, Canadian, Russian space station fliers set for return to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, and Canadian flight engineer David Saint-Jacques. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos A Russian cosmonaut, his Canadian co-pilot and a NASA flight engineer packed their Soyuz spacecraft for departure from the International Space Station Monday night, targeting a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan…
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Live coverage: International Space Station crew lands in Kazakhstan
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SpaceX cargo ship reaches space station
Credit: NASA TV A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship caught up with the International Space Station early Monday and then stood by while Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, operating the lab’s robot arm, locked onto the spacecraft to wrap up a two-day rendezvous. “Well done, well captured,” a flight controller radioed from the Johnson Space Center in…
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SpaceX crew capsule returns to Earth, paving the way for human launches
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday with an on-target splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft closed out a six-day test flight in low Earth orbit Friday with an on-target splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, and officials hailed the ship’s performance before it flies with astronauts…
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SpaceX crew ship set for Friday re-entry, splashdown
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A view “Ripley,” the instrumented dummy inside the Crew Dragon spacecraft, shortly after the capsule’s hatch was closed Thursday in preparation for undocking. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Space station astronauts closed hatches to the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Thursday, setting the stage for undocking early Friday and a…
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Photos: Crew Dragon moves in for first docking
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took these pictures of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft as it approached for docking Sunday, a day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The capsule linked up with a docking port on the forward end of the station’s Harmony module at 5:51 a.m. EST (1051 GMT) Sunday,…
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SpaceX crew capsule welcomed aboard space station
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft closes in for docking Sunday at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Closing out a 27-hour pursuit after a predawn launch from Florida’s Space Coast, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule glided to an automated docking early Sunday at the International Space Station, accomplishing one of the ship’s key test…
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Video: Soyuz lifts off with new space station crew
Video credit: NASA TV A Russian Soyuz booster climbed into orbit Monday with a U.S. Army colonel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian flight engineer, kicking off a six-hour chase of the International Space Station. The three-stage rocket lifted off from historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1131…