Tag: International Space Station
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Videos: Atlas 5 launch replays from OA-7 Cygnus mission
Isolated camera views from various locations around Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center show the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifting off Tuesday with the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo freighter bound for the International Space Station. VIF roof NASA Causeway Playalinda Beach Pad camera VAB roof UCS 15 See earlier OA-7 Cygnus coverage. Our…
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Live coverage: Yurchikhin, Fischer reach space station after fast-track rendezvous
Live coverage of the Expedition 51 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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Two fresh crew members join space station expedition
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this picture of the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and rookie flight engineer Jack Fischer streaked into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft Thursday, chased down the International Space Station and…
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U.S.-Russian duo joins space station crew, six hours after launch from Kazakhstan
Today there are 67 percent more people working in space than there were the day before, now that NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin have arrived at the International Space Station. The two spacefliers were launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early today and took a six-hour ride aboard a Russian…
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Photos: Cargo run to the space station begins
An unmanned cargo freighter carrying nearly four tons of supplies and science, launched and operated commercially for NASA, blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday atop an Atlas 5 rocket bound for the International Space Station. Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: NASA-KSC Credit: United Launch Alliance Credit:…
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Soyuz crew set for Thursday launch to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA flight engineer Jack Fischer pose with their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft during launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center/Andrey Shelepin Just 10 days after three space station fliers returned to Earth — and two days after launch…
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Atlas 5 rocket successfully boosts Cygnus cargo ship on trek to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL — Loaded with supplies to keep the International Space Station’s crew fed, clothed and busy with new science projects, a Cygnus cargo vessel sped into orbit today atop an Atlas 5 rocket. The 194-foot-tall United Launch Alliance rocket was activated and tested during a seven-hour countdown at its Complex 41 pad, leading to…
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Liftoff sends Cygnus cargo ship to space station, but 360-degree video falls short
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas 5 rocket flashes to life on its Cape Canaveral launch pad, sending Orbital ATK’s Cygnus cargo capsule on the first leg of its journey to the International Space Station. (NASA TV) Today’s launch of a robotic Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station was totally successful. But the first-ever live…
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Video: Tribute to NASA’s retiring George Diller
NASA launch commentator George Diller called the Atlas 5 with Cygnus, his final liftoff as the voice of launch control before retirement next month. He has worked at the Kennedy Space Center for nearly four decades and served as the commentator for such memorable launches as Hubble, Cassini, Mars Pathfinder, the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity…
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Video: Atlas takes flight with Cygnus
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, standing 194 feet tall and and weighing 720,000 pounds, generates 860,000 pounds of thrust from its main engine to launch the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship on the OA-7 mission to the International Space Station. See earlier OA-7 Cygnus coverage. Our Atlas archive.