Tag: Kate Rubins

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    Spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins are dwarfed by the International Space Station’s truss backbone during Thursday’s EVA. Credit: NASA TV Space station commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins completed a smooth 6-hour 48-minute spacewalk Thursday, retracting a spare cooling radiator, installing two high-definition TV cameras and inspecting a massive solar array rotation…

  • Astronauts set for second spacewalk in two weeks

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    Space station commander Jeff Williams and astronaut Kate Rubins plan to carry out their second spacewalk in two weeks Thursday, venturing back outside to retract a cooling radiator, install a high-definition TV camera, replace a burned-out light and inspect struts attached to a large solar array rotary mechanism. If time is available, they also may…

  • Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

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    Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Dragon spacecraft splashes down with station research specimens

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    SpaceX released this view of the Dragon spacecraft descending to the Pacific Ocean on Friday. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX-owned Dragon cargo craft left the International Space Station on Friday and flew back to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with a dozen mice and more than 3,000 pounds of experiment specimens and…

  • Soyuz brings three to space station

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft approaches the Rassvet docking port for docking early Saturday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian Soyuz spacecraft featuring a variety of avionics upgrades and other changes to improve reliability and performance docked with the International Space Station early Saturday after a two-day orbital chase,…

  • Launch of next space station crew moved to July

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    Japanese flight engineer Takuya Onishi, Russian Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins pause during their final Soyuz qualification exams May 27 in Star City, Russia. Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll Russian managers have delayed the launch of a Russian-U.S.-Japanese crew to the International Space Station two weeks until early July to allow time for additional…

  • Video: Next space station trio finishing training at Star City

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    Expedition 48-49 Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and flight engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, along with their backups, conduct final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on May 26 and 27. Ivanishin, Rubins and Onishi are scheduled to launch…