Tag: International Space Station
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Live coverage: HTV cargo freighter arrives at space station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an H-2B rocket with Japan’s ninth H-2 Transfer Vehicle on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”JAXA Webcast”] [tabbyending]
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Astronauts arrive in Florida to set new NASA traditions for crewed spaceflight
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley take questions from journalists after their arrival at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA Photo) Two NASA astronauts landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today to go through a set of pre-launch traditions that haven’t been followed for nearly nine years — and create a…
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Days before landmark launch, NASA’s head of human spaceflight quits due to ‘mistake’
Doug Loverro speaks at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana shortly after taking his place as the space agency’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations in 2019. (NASA Photo via Twitter) NASA’s top executive concentrating on human spaceflight, Doug Loverro, has resigned just a week before the scheduled start of a milestone space mission.…
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Japan’s HTV ready for launch with last set of new space station solar batteries
The second stage of an H-2B rocket is prepared for launch with Japan’s ninth HTV space station supply ship. Credit: MHI A Japanese HTV cargo freighter is ready for launch Wednesday with the last set of six lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power truss. Japan’s ninth automated H-2 Transfer Vehicle, or…
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NASA inks deal with Roscosmos to ensure continuous U.S. presence on space station
File photo of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station in March 2019. Credit: NASA With lingering uncertainty about when new U.S. commercial vehicles can regularly carry crews to the space station, NASA said Tuesday it will pay the Russian space agency more than $90 million for a round-trip ticket to the International Space Station…
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Cygnus departs space station, beginning extended experimental mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 GMT) after Cygnus release. The Cygnus cargo freighter has been released from the International Space Station’s robotic arm, ending the spacecraft’s 83-day stay at the orbiting complex. WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/eyXXSFxOFR pic.twitter.com/XucgpieiSM — Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) May 11, 2020 A Cygnus supply ship built by Northrop Grumman departed the…
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NASA working with Tom Cruise to film movie on the International Space Station
Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.” Credit: Paramount Pictures NASA said Tuesday it is working with Tom Cruise to film a movie on the International Space Station, but details on the arrangements are scarce. The news that Cruise was in talks with to shoot an action-adventure film on the space station was first reported Monday…
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NASA and SpaceX get set to make history with landmark spaceflight during pandemic
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley participate in an integrated SpaceX test of critical crew flight hardware in March, in preparation for this month’s scheduled launch to the International Space Station in a Crew Dragon capsule. (SpaceX Photo) Everything is in readiness for the first mission to send humans into orbit from U.S. soil…
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Soyuz launches from Kazakhstan with space station supply ship
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the 75h Progress supply ship for the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz rocket decorated to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe fired into space Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending a Progress…
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Russian resupply freighter poised for launch to International Space Station
Continuing support of the International Space Station amid the coronavirus pandemic, Russian teams transferred a Soyuz rocket to a launch pad in Kazakhstan on Wednesday in preparation for liftoff Friday (U.S. time) with a Progress resupply freighter. Adorned with a commemoration to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, the…