Tag: International Space Station

  • SpaceX receives firm order for its first crew flight

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    Artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX Fresh off a major design review, SpaceX’s human-rated Dragon spaceship has received the first of up to six firm mission orders from NASA under the company’s $2.6 billion commercial crew contract. The structure of the commercial crew deals with SpaceX and Boeing give each company at…

  • Photos: Cargo vessel enclosed in Atlas rocket nose cone

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    This photo gallery shows the commercial Cygnus cargo resupplier for the International Space Station on Monday at Kennedy Space Center being encapsulated in the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket’s payload fairing for the planned Dec. 3 liftoff. It was mated atop the rocket on Friday. The 14-foot-diameter shroud covers the Orbital ATK spacecraft during…

  • It’s official: NASA signs up to send crew on SpaceX’s Dragon space taxi

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    An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule en route to the International Space Station. (Credit: SpaceX) NASA has ordered its first mission from SpaceX to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, six months after placing a similar order with Boeing. “It’s really exciting to see SpaceX and Boeing with hardware in flow for…

  • International Space Station cargo ship hoisted atop Atlas 5 rocket

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    File photo of payload hoisting. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Loaded with over 7,300 pounds of goods for the International Space Station, a commercial Cygnus cargo vessel was mounted atop its Atlas 5 rocket booster today for launch Dec. 3. Just over a week after stacking of the two-stage launcher began at the Vertical Integration…

  • Explained: Why Atlas 5 will have longer windows for station flights

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    Atlas 5 launch. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — Expanding a single instant in time to 30 minutes, the upcoming United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rockets with Cygnus cargo-delivery freighters bound for the International Space Station will have an unprecedented opportunity available to launch each day. The first of two such launches in a 100-day span…

  • Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs

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    Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions. NASA has released pictures from the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 spacewalks showing Kelly and Lindgren snapping space selfies and working near…

  • Station-bound cargo ship shown to press before launch

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    The Orbital ATK’s Cygnus commercial resupply spacecraft, named the SS Deke Slayton II, is packed up and poised for launch to the International Space Station. Engineers showed the vessel to local reporters and photographers at the Kennedy Space Center’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility on Friday. It will be encapsulated in the Atlas 5 rocket’s 14-foot…

  • Stacking starts for Atlas 5 cargo run to space station with Cygnus

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    The mission poster. Credit: ULA CAPE CANAVERAL — United Launch Alliance today began stacking its first Atlas 5 rocket to fly in service to the International Space Station, a commercial mission to send supplies to the orbiting complex. This launch, planned for Dec. 3, and another targeted for March 10, are precursors to the much…

  • Spacewalkers reconfigure station cooling system

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly, in an all-white spacesuit, is camouflaged against the space station’s structure in this picture taken during Friday’s spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Credit: Sergey Volkov/Roscosmos Space station commander Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren carried out a busy but mostly trouble-free spacewalk Friday, routing ammonia…

  • Kelly, Lindgren set for second spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly is pictured outside the International Space Station during an Oct. 28 spacewalk. Credit: NASA Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are gearing up for their second spacewalk in nine days Friday, a planned six-and-a-half-hour excursion to reconfigure the ammonia cooling system…