Tag: Human Spaceflight

  • NASA names cadre of commercial crew astronauts

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The four astronauts assigned to train for NASA’s commercial crew program — from top left, clockwise: Robert Behnken, Eric Boe, Sunita Williams and Douglas Hurley. Credit: NASA/Collectspace.com Four veteran astronauts have been selected to train for launch aboard new commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX…

  • Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September

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    Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will fly to the International Space Station in September. Credit: Kazcosmos Russia’s space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May. Aidyn Aimbetov, a 42-year-old fighter pilot turned cosmonaut,…

  • Three station fliers set for return to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and Italian flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti donned their Sokol spacesuits last month for a landing rehearsal exercise. Credit: NASA Three space station crew members packed up for a fiery return to Earth Thursday, wrapping up a nearly 200-day mission…

  • Russia updates launch schedule for ISS crews, cargo

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    Updated at 11 p.m. EDT NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui will launch to the International Space Station in late July. Credit: NASA/GCTC The next three-person crew will launch to the International Space Station sometime between July 23 and July 25 after a two-month delay triggered by…

  • Boeing gets first order for commercial crew mission

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    Artist’s concept of Boeing’s CST-100 crew capsule approaching the International Space Station. Credit: Boeing NASA has placed an order with Boeing for the first operational mission to ferry a crew to the International Space Station in a new era of commercial human spaceflight. The flight is expected to occur in late 2017 after Boeing’s CST-100…

  • Dashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking

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    A video camera mounted inside a Russian Soyuz capsule captured stunning views of the docking of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station in March, supplying a spectacular visual of a cosmic ballet occurring 250 miles above Earth. Shooting through a window on the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, the camera recorded the last phase of…