Tag: Expedition 58
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Forecasters expect good weather for Crew Dragon test launch Saturday
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolls out of the hangar at pad 39A in this file photo. Credit: SpaceX The first official launch weather outlook issued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force meteorologists predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for the predawn liftoff Saturday of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on a test flight to…
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Take an aerial 4K video tour of the Crew Dragon atop Falcon 9
Take an aerial tour of the Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was shot in 4k video resolution by a drone camera during pre-launch testing. The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 will return to the launch pad this week for its first test…
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NASA, SpaceX clear Crew Dragon for critical March 2 test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket assigned to the Demo-1 mission inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A on Dec. 18. 2018. Credit: SpaceX NASA managers held a flight readiness review Friday and cleared SpaceX to press ahead with work to ready a Falcon 9 rocket and…
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Cygnus supply ship departs space station for extended mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) after departure, with updated information on nanosatellite deployments. The Cygnus spacecraft is released from the space station’s robot arm Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A commercial Cygnus supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday for an extended mission to deploy five nanosatellites and conduct other…
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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…
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Watch multi-angle replays of the Soyuz MS-11 launch
These video replays show the liftoff of the Soyuz rocket carrying Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station around six hours later. The three-stage rocket lifted off from historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at…
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Soyuz crew enjoys problem-free launch, docks with space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft docked with the space station’s Poisk module at 12:33 p.m. EST (1733 GMT), delivering three new crew members to the orbiting research complex. Credit: NASA TV A Soyuz FG rocket thundered to life and shot into orbit smoothly Monday carrying three crew members on a…
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Live coverage: Russia launches first crewed mission since Soyuz failure
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Soyuz crew rocket arrives on the pad for first time since dramatic launch abort
Keeping up a tradition dating back to the dawn of the Space Age, a Russian Soyuz rocket emerged from a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before sunrise Saturday for rollout to Launch Pad No. 1 at the Central Asia space base, moving into position for liftoff Monday with a U.S.-Russian-Canadian crew heading for…
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NASA astronaut unfazed by frightening launch abort
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Nick Hague pictured during training before his launch last week on the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger Two minutes after launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket last week, NASA astronaut Nick Hague knew something had gone badly wrong. At the moment four strap-on boosters separated from…