Tag: Human Spaceflight
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Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station
A Soyuz rocket climbed away from a historic launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday with three new crew members heading for the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, making his first trip into space, sat in the commander’s seat of the Soyuz TMA-20M spaceship for the launch at 2126:38 GMT (5:26:38…
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Soyuz crew transport arrives at launch pad
A Russian Soyuz rocket has reached its last stop before liftoff Friday with two Russian cosmonauts and veteran NASA flight engineer Jeff Williams, who is slated to break the record for the most cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut. The kerosene-fueled rocket is set for launch at 2126 GMT (5:26 p.m. EDT)…
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Scott Kelly leaving NASA after record-setting space station flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Houston on March 3 after his return to Earth the previous day. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, just back from a record 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station, is leaving NASA at the end of the month,…
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Scott Kelly leaving NASA after record-setting space station flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Houston on March 3 after his return to Earth the previous day. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, just back from a record 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station, is leaving NASA at the end of the month,…
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Kelly describes re-adaptation to gravity, life on Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, re-adapting to gravity, people and wide open spaces after a record 340 days cooped up aboard the International Space Station, said Friday his muscles and joints are a bit sore — “just about all of ’em” — his skin is surprisingly sensitive…
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China to launch new space lab later this year
Artist’s concept of a Shenzhou spacecraft (left) and the Tiangong 1 space lab module (right) in orbit. Credit: Xinhua China plans to launch a new human-rated space laboratory as soon as July and send two astronauts to visit the mini-space station by end of the year, officials said Sunday. The piloted flight will be China’s…
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Record-setting space station crew lands after 340-day mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was in good spirits after returning to Earth. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko ended a record-setting 340-day stay in orbit with a fiery Super Tuesday plunge to Earth, settling to a jarring rocket-assisted touchdown on the steppe of…
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Record numbers apply to become a NASA astronaut
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station last year. Credit: NASA A record number of would-be space travelers have applied to join NASA’s corps of astronauts to fly aboard the International Space Station, the Orion crew capsule, or commercial spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX, the space agency announced Friday. NASA said more…
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Live coverage: Russian-American-British crew launches toward space station
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Watch a replay of Soyuz crew’s blastoff from Kazakhstan
Three crewmen from Russia, the United States and Great Britain blasted off toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, rocketing into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in pursuit of the orbiting research lab. This video from Roscosmos — the Russian space agency — shows the Soyuz rocket carrying the three-man crew launching at 1103 GMT…