Tag: Human Spaceflight
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After previous crew’s return, new space station residents set for launch Wednesday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Russian Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev, and German flight engineer Alexander Gerst are set for launch Wednesday. Credit: NASA/GCTC With three space station fliers safely back on Earth after a pinpoint landing Sunday, three fresh crew members made final preparations for launch Wednesday from Kazakhstan…
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Soyuz rocket for next station crew transferred to launch pad in Kazakhstan
Video credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz booster set for liftoff this week with a Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer, and a former NASA flight surgeon heading for the International Space Station arrived at its launch pad in Kazakhstan Monday. The Soyuz rocket, emblazoned with a logo commemorating the 2018 FIFA World Cup, emerged from its…
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Live coverage: Soyuz capsule brings home three-man crew
Live coverage of the Expedition 55 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Space station crew closes out 168-day mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft touches down in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA flight engineer and a Japanese physician-astronaut strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship early Sunday, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to…
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One station crew heads home, another preps for launch
Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai (upper left), Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov (bottom), and NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle (right) are set to return to Earth Sunday aboard the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JAXA With three space station fliers heading home Sunday after a 168-day mission, three fresh crew members made final preparations for launch three days…
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Alan Bean, moonwalker turned artist, dies at 86
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Former astronaut Alan Bean in his Houston art studio. Credit: Smithsonian Institution Alan Bean, a Navy test pilot and astronaut who walked on the moon and then spent two months aboard America’s first space station before leaving NASA and becoming an accomplished artist, painting moonscapes and space vistas…
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NASA wrestles with what to do with International Space Station after 2024
Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA’s human exploration and operations directorate (left), and Paul Martin, NASA’s inspector general (right), testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness on May 16. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Lawmakers last week questioned the Trump administration’s proposal to end direct U.S. government support of the International Space Station in…
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Astronauts reposition space station cooling pumps on successful spacewalk
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts work outside the International Space Station on Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Two astronauts worked outside the International Space Station Wednesday to reposition two spare solar array ammonia coolant pump assemblies, putting a failed…
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SpaceX debuts new model of the Falcon 9 rocket designed for astronauts
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Friday from launch pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX debuted a more reusable, higher-thrust model of the Falcon 9 rocket Friday, hauling Bangladesh’s first communications satellite into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast. The successful launch propelled SpaceX closer to launching astronauts for NASA, which will fly on the same “Block…
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Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship departs station, returns to Earth
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. SpaceX and NASA will not provide live video coverage of the splashdown. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…