Tag: ISS
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Year in Review (Part IV) – ISS sails into New Year following successful 2012
With all three Space Shuttle orbiters now tucked away inside their respective museums, the International Space Station (ISS) has completed its full year on-orbit in the post-Shuttle era, a year which has brought great successes for the orbital outpost. On the back of these successes in 2012, a promising 2013 awaits the station, with many new…
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The Soyuz TMA-07M Santa Sleigh docks with ISS
The Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft – known by its NASA designation as 33S – followed up its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, by docking with the ISS two days later, delivering the three new crewmembers to the orbital outpost for a festive welcome by their crewmates already aboard the station. Soyuz TMA-07M crew: Soyuz…
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Long duration ISS crew to lay the foundations for BEO missions
NASA and Roscosmos have selected two of their best astronauts to spend a one year period on the International Space Station (ISS), providing vital data into how the human body copes with long duration space flight. The findings will help both agencies to prepare countermeasures to the effects crews may suffer from during long flights…
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Three ISS crewmembers make pre-dawn Earth return following ISS departure
Three crewmembers of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 33 crew – comprising American astronaut Suni Williams, Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide, and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko – undocked from the ISS on time at 10:26 PM GMT in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 31S. They landed on the steppe of…
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Astronaut duo complete spacewalk on ISS to isolate ammonia leak
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) stepped outside the orbiting outpost on Thursday to successfully perform an unexpected, US segment-based spacewalk to fix an ammonia leak in the cooling system of a power distribution channel. The Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) was 20th to be performed on the US Segment by an ISS crew,…
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Progress M-17M docks with ISS just six hours after launch
The Russian Progress M-17M cargo spacecraft lifted off atop a Soyuz-U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning, on its way to an accelerated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) that was completed just six hours later. The launch marks the final delivery of cargo to be made to the ISS…
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SpaceX’s Dragon returns to Earth with precious cargo from ISS
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has completed its trip back to Earth, carrying with it a valuable load of cargo from its host since October 10, the International Space Station. While the re-entry and splashdown of the Dragon was significant in itself – as it will be only the third time that a Dragon has performed this…
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Soyuz TMA-06M docks to ISS – boosts crew for busy period of activity
The Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft, also known by its US designation of 32S, has docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on time at 12:29 PM GMT, boosting the station’s crew back up to six people for the first time since September 16. The extra crewmembers will be a welcome addition to the ISS, as the…
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Soyuz TMA-06 crew set sail on their busy ISS expedition
A Russian Soyuz FG launch vehicle has lofted the next set of International Space Station crewmembers on their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeni Tarelkin and former Shuttle astronaut Kevin Ford will link up with Expedition 32’s Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide on Thursday. Soyuz Launch: Ford, who previously served as pilot…
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ISS program planning spacewalks to repair power channel faults outside station
International Space Station (ISS) program managers are currently hard at work preparing for at least one, and potentially two, upcoming and unplanned spacewalks to repair external faults relating to two of the station’s electrical power channels. The spacewalks would both be performed within the next month by experienced spacewalkers Sunita Williams of NASA and Aki…