Tag: Human Spaceflight
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Two fresh crew members join space station expedition
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this picture of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and rookie flight engineer Jack Fischer streaked into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft Thursday, chased down the International Space Station and…
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Soyuz crew set for Thursday launch to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA flight engineer Jack Fischer pose with their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft during launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin Just 10 days after three space station fliers returned to Earth — and two days after launch…
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Soyuz booster moved to launch pad to loft two-man crew
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolled to its launch pad in Kazakhstan early Monday aboard a specially-designed rail car, three days before sending a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronaut to the International Space Station. The three-stage launcher emerged from the Soyuz integration building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome just before sunrise Monday for the journey to Launch…
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Video: Expedition 50 landing
Remarkable video shot near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, shows the Soyuz capsule descending under parachute for an on-target landing. The touchdown safely capped the three-man Expedition 50 crew’s 173-day mission to the International Space Station. Post-egress scenes from the Soyuz landing zone show Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight…
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Soyuz makes pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan with crew of three
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan on Monday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Astronaut Shane Kimbrough and his two Russian crewmates — Soyuz MS-02 commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko — undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Monday, landing on the steppe…
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Photos: Soyuz MS-02 spaceship lands in Kazakhstan
Carrying three space station crew members back home after 173 days in orbit, the Russian Soyuz MS-02 landing craft touched down in Kazakhstan on Monday after a parachute-assisted descent through clear skies. The 7-foot by 7-foot capsule landed at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT; 5:20 p.m. local time in Kazakhstan) with Sergey Ryzhikov, Andrey Borisenko and…
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Live coverage: Three-man crew closes out 173-day space mission
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NASA, Roscosmos open to extending station operations to 2028
The exterior of the International Space Station seeing during a spacewalk in September 2016. Credit: NASA Top officials from NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, could decide soon to commit to keeping the International Space Station staffed and flying through at least 2028, four years after the research lab’s current retirement date. The head…
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Blue Origin’s staying power bankrolled by Jeff Bezos’s multibillion-dollar investment
Jeff Bezos speaks at the 33rd Space Symposium on April 5. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, now the second-richest person in the world, is funding his space company’s lofty ambitions $1 billion per year, driving Blue Origin closer to taking paying passengers to the edge of space and fielding a reusable satellite launcher…
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Photos: Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster on display
Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Scarred from five trips to the edge of space and back, Blue Origin’s privately-developed New Shepard rocket was on vertical display this week at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. The single-stage rocket is now retired and will eventually go into a museum after a traveling “road show” around the…