Tag: Human Spaceflight
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Video: Soyuz lifts off with three-man crew
Three veteran space fliers rode a Soyuz rocket into orbit Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, heading to the International Space Station for a five-month stay. Soyuz commander Oleg Artemyev, flanked by NASA flight engineer Drew Feustel and astronaut Ricky Arnold, were aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spaceship for liftoff at 1744 GMT (1:44 p.m.…
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Soyuz takes off with three bound for space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off and shot into orbit Wednesday, carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts, all veteran space fliers, on a two-day flight to the International Space Station. With Soyuz MS-08/54S commander Oleg Artemyev at the controls in the spacecraft’s center…
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Soyuz crew set for Wednesday launch on station flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Drew Feustel, Oleg Artemyev and Ricky Arnold (left to right), all spaceflight veterans, are set for launch Wednesday on a five-month expedition to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov Engineers readied a Russian Soyuz rocket for launch Wednesday to ferry a veteran cosmonaut and two NASA shuttle…
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Photos: Soyuz booster rolls out for launch of space station crew
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Monday, two days before its scheduled departure with three passengers on the way to the International Space Station. The three-stage rocket emerged from its assembly building at the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome before sunrise Monday, riding a rail car for the trip across…
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Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers home
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-06 spaceship descends through a morning sky over Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Bidding their crewmates farewell, a Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts boarded their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the International Space Station and fell back to Earth Tuesday, landing safely on the snowy steppe…
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Live coverage: Three-man station crew lands in Kazakhstan
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Spacewalking astronauts complete robot arm work
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese crewmate Norishige Kanai floated outside the International Space Station Friday, repositioned two robot arm grapple mechanisms following repair work last month and carried out a variety of “get-ahead” tasks before calling it a day. Floating in the Quest airlock,…
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Progress supply ship docks with International Space Station
The Progress MS-08 supply ship approaches the International Space Station during Thursday’s rendezvous and docking. Credit: NASA TV Russia’s Progress MS-08 cargo carrier glided to an automated radar-guided link-up with the International Space Station on Thursday with three tons of fuel, water, supplies and experiments. The unpiloted cargo freighter docked with the station’s Zvezda service…
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Trump administration supports transition to commercially-focused space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of the International Space Station from the final space shuttle mission in 2011. Credit: NASA The Trump administration is proposing to end direct government support of the International Space Station in 2025, but plans to include $150 million in NASA’s fiscal 2019 budget, to be unveiled Monday,…
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Cosmonauts upgrade station high-gain antenna on record-breaking spacewalk
File photo of a Russian cosmonaut on a spacewalk. Credit: NASA Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov floated outside the International Space Station on Friday and installed an upgraded electronics box on a high-gain communications antenna at the aft end of the Zvezda service module. The spacewalking duo opened the hatch to the Russian…