Tag: Human Spaceflight
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SpaceX crew launch set for Nov. 14
NASA astronaut Victor Glover, commander Mike Hopkins, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, and mission specialist Shannon Walker (left to right) will launch on SpaceX’s first operational Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX After a two-week delay to evaluate a concern with Falcon 9 rocket engines, NASA and SpaceX have set Nov. 14…
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Water molecules detected on moon’s sunlit surface, adding impetus to Artemis
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION This illustration highlights the Moon’s Clavius Crater with an illustration depicting water trapped in the lunar soil there, along with an image of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) that found sunlit lunar water. Credits: NASA/Daniel Rutter Water molecules have been directly detected across sunlit regions of…
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Soyuz brings three space station fliers back to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The descent module of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft after landing in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now One week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station, the three crew members they’re replacing strapped into their own Soyuz spacecraft, undocked and returned…
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Space station crew preps for re-entry, landing
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin, and flight engineer Ivan Vagner are scheduled to depart the International Space Station and return to Earth. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos One week after two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut arrived at the International Space Station for a six-month stay, the three…
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Live coverage: Soyuz crew returns to Earth
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Photos: Soyuz launches new station crew with spectacular autumn blastoff
Photos released by Russia’s space agency show the launch of a Soyuz booster Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut heading for the International Space Station. The 162-foot-tall (49-meter) Soyuz-2.1a rocket took off from Pad No. 31 at Baikonur at 10:45:04 a.m. local time Wednesday. Liftoff occurred…
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Live coverage: Soyuz crew arrives at International Space Station
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Soyuz crew docks with International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft just before docking with the International Space Station. Credit: Ivan Vagner/Roscosmoos In a mission marking the end of an era, NASA astronaut and former virus hunter Kate Rubins, using NASA’s last currently contracted seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, rocketed into orbit Wednesday with…
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Russia’s space agency unlikely to join NASA-led lunar program
Artist’s illustration of the Gateway in lunar orbit, including modules from international partners. Credit: NASA The head of the Russian space agency said this week that the the Gateway mini-space station NASA plans to build around the moon is “too U.S.-centric” and added that Russia unlikely to significantly contribute to the project. Dmitry Rogozin, director…
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NASA uses final purchased Soyuz seat for Wednesday flight to station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Russian commander Sergey Ryzhikov, and flight engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will fly to the space station on the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/GCTC/Roscosmos In a mission marking the end of an era, NASA astronaut and former virus hunter Kate Rubins, using NASA’s last currently contracted…