Tag: International Space Station
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Photos: Space station crew back on Earth
A scaled-down team of technicians and medical personnel — wearing facial masks as a precaution against the global coronavirus pandemic — met a three-person space station crew on the steppes of Kazakhstan Friday after their landing aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. These photos show the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft’s descent under an orange and white main…
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Soyuz with crew of three lands safely in Kazakhstan
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A Russian cosmonaut and his two NASA crewmates undocked from the International Space Station and landed in Kazakhstan early Friday, returning to an unfamiliar world in the grip of a pandemic that will force them to extend the social isolation they were hoping to end. “It’s a little…
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A date with history: NASA and SpaceX schedule first crewed Dragon mission for May 27 launch
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley run through a simulation of launch and docking in preparation for their flight to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship. (SpaceX Photo) NASA and SpaceX have set a date for the first crewed space mission to be launched into orbit from U.S. soil since…
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U.S.-Russian trio leaves space station and returns to Earth in the age of coronavirus
Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut ended a months-long tour of duty on the International Space Station and returned to Earth to face a viral outbreak that didn’t exist when they launched. NASA’s Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir, and Russia’s Oleg Skripochka, left the station in their Russian Soyuz capsule at 6:53 p.m. PT today…
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Live coverage: Station crew lands in Kazakhstan
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Video and photos: Three-man crew launches from Kazakhstan
Riding nearly a million pounds of thrust, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner rocketed into orbit April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome en route to the International Space Station. The three-man crew lifted off at 1:05 p.m. Baikonur time (0805 GMT; 4:05 a.m. EDT) to begin a six-hour…
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Photos: SpaceX cargo capsule returns to Southern California after space station mission
SpaceX technicians offloaded a Dragon cargo capsule from its recovery ship Thursday after returning the thrice-flown supply freighter to the Port of Los Angeles, marking the final planned return of a Dragon spacecraft to the West Coast. The cargo vehicle splashed down Tuesday, April 7, under parachutes in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Los Angeles…
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Station crew ready for return to Earth, and coronavirus
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Expedition 62 crew members Drew Morgan, Oleg Skripochka and Jessica Meir pose inside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Nearly seven months aboard the International Space Station may be an extreme case of social distancing and isolation, but astronaut Jessica Meir says she expects to feel more isolated…
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A new trio joins space station crew; next visitors are due to ride SpaceX’s Dragon
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts are settling into their new home on the International Space Station after today’s launch and docking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The Soyuz was launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:05 p.m. local time (1:05 a.m. PT), carrying Cassidy and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and…
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Soyuz crew docks with the International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on Thursday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now With an absence of fanfare amid coronavirus safety protocols, an upgraded Russian Soyuz rocket making its first piloted flight blasted off from Kazakhstan Thursday carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a…