Tag: International Space Station
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Live coverage: Station crew safe after ammonia leak scare
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the Expedition 42 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Astronauts return to US side of space station after leak scare
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) Astronauts return to the US segment of the International Space Station wearing masks as a precaution. Image: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now. Concern about a possible ammonia coolant leak early Wednesday prompted astronauts aboard the International Space Station to evacuate the…
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SpaceX rocket crash-lands on drone ship in ambitious recovery attempt
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. SpaceX was unsuccessful in its inaugural attempt to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket softly on a barge in the ocean, the company reported overnight. The company’s founder, Elon Musk, says the hard landing of the unmanned first…
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NASA ‘leaning on’ SpaceX to keep ISS supply lines open
A previous Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in September 2014. Credit: SpaceX The Dragon spaceship poised for launch Tuesday will carry more than 2.5 tons of equipment for the International Space Station’s six-person crew, making the first U.S. supply delivery to the orbiting research complex since the crash of an Antares cargo rocket…
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with station crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION The three-man Soyuz crew is greeted by Russian recovery teams in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A veteran cosmonaut, a German volcanologist and a Navy test pilot-turned-astronaut whose mastery of social media earned him — and NASA — a global following, undocked from the International Space Station…
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Russians launch Progress supply ship to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated after successful docking A Russian Progress supply ship loaded with nearly 5,800 pounds of supplies and equipment needed aboard the International Space Station takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Image: NASA TV. Nine hours after a spectacular launch failure that destroyed a U.S.…
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Antares rocket moved to launch pad in Virginia
An Antares rocket rides a self-propelled mobile transporter Friday to launch pad 0A at Wallops Island, Va. Credit: Orbital Sciences Corp. Ground crews transferred an Antares rocket out of an assembly building to a launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Friday in a major step before liftoff Monday to resupply the International Space Station.…