Tag: Human Spaceflight
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Astronauts complete extra work on first in series of battery upgrade spacewalks
Credit: A view of the P6 truss on the International Space Station, with the HTV battery pallet on the end of the robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan floated outside the International Space Station Sunday and completed a 7-hour, 1-minute spacewalk to begin replacing batteries on the far left…
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Hardware arrives in Florida for Crew Dragon in-flight abort test
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 4 to correct reference to SuperDraco abort engines. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for the in-flight abort test inside a processing facility at Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA/SpaceX Images taken inside SpaceX facilities at Cape Canaveral and released by NASA Thursday show the Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster assigned to an in-flight…
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Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan with three-man crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft’s landing capsule descends under an orange and white main parachute moments for touchdown Thursday in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Leaving six crewmates behind in orbit, a Russian commander, his NASA co-pilot and a first-time flier from the United Arab Emirates undocked from the International…
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Live coverage: Three-man crew, including first UAE astronaut, lands in Kazakhstan
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Boeing closing in on Starliner pad abort test
Boeing engineers in New Mexico are readying a Starliner spacecraft for a critical pad abort test this fall to demonstrate the capsule’s ability to escape an emergency on the launch pad before green-lighting the capsule to carry astronauts. Boeing has not announced a target date for the pad abort test, but final preparations are underway…
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Soyuz ferries three crew members to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION With the arrival of three new crew members Wednesday, the International Space Station is temporarily home to people. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian commander, a NASA co-pilot and a United Arab Emirates guest cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan Wednesday, chased down the International…
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Live coverage: International crew launches from Kazakhstan
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NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build six more Orion crew capsules
Artist’s illustration of an Orion spacecraft at the moon. Credit: Lockheed Martin NASA announced Monday it will order at least six reusable Orion crew capsules from Lockheed Martin for $4.6 billion to fly astronauts to the vicinity of the moon in the 2020s, and the agency said it plans to purchase hardware for up to…
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Soyuz rocket in position for launch of next station crew
The Russian Soyuz rocket that will carry a three-person crew to the International Space Station Wednesday has arrived on its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Riding a specially-equipped railcar, a Soyuz-FG rocket rolled out of its assembly building, or MIK, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome just after sunrise Monday. After a winding…
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NASA still looking for new human spaceflight chief
Ken Bowersox, acting head of NASA’s human exploration and operations mission directorate, listens during a hearing Wednesday before the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani NASA hopes to have a new leader for the agency’s human spaceflight directorate by the end of the year to replace…