Tag: Human Spaceflight
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SpaceX crew capsule, Falcon 9 rocket roll out to pad 39A in Florida for tests
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft arrived at launch pad 39A on Thursday morning. Credit: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX rolled out the company’s first space-worthy Crew Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 launcher to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time Thursday, beginning a series of fit checks…
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Crew of three safely lands in Kazakhstan after 197-day space mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst exits the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft shortly after landing Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer and a NASA astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth overnight Wednesday, landing on the snowy steppe of…
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Station crew set for overnight landing in Kazakhstan
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst, and Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev are set for landing in Kazakhstan Thursday. Credit: Roscosmos Eight days after a dramatic spacewalk to inspect the site of a leak in the hull of his Soyuz ferry ship, Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev,…
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Photos: Russian spacewalkers perform ‘surgery’ on Soyuz spacecraft
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (red stripes) and Sergey Prokopyev (blue stripes) inspect the site of a repaired air leak on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft on a Dec. 11 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst Armed with a knife, scissors and other cutting tools, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev went outside the…
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Video and photo highlights of Virgin Galactic’s historic SpaceShipTwo test flight
Check out video highlights released by Virgin Galactic of Thursday’s test flight by the company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to an altitude of 271,000 feet (82.7 kilometers), above a boundary recognized by the U.S. government as the edge of space. The air-dropped rocket plane took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California under a…
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Virgin Galactic accomplishes milestone test flight to the edge of space
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) after confirmation of a successful test flight. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane fires toward space Thursday. Credit: MarsScientific.com & Trumbull Studios / Virgin Galactic With two veteran test pilots at the controls, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane climbed to the edge of space for the first time…
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Russian spacewalkers cut into Soyuz spaceship to inspect leak repair
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) after end of spacewalk. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko cuts through thermal insulation and debris shields to reach the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft’s hull during Tuesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Clad in pressurized spacesuits, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev used knives and scissors Tuesday to slice through…
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SpaceX makes another space station cargo delivery
SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship approaches the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA A commercial supply ship owned and operated by SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, delivering a pair of NASA experiments to demonstrate satellite refueling techniques and monitor changes in Earth’s forests, along with a special holiday menu of…
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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…