Tag: Luca Parmitano
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NASA chief defends selection of all-male Artemis 3 crew
Artemis 3 crew members NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, commander; ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, pilot; and NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, mission specialist, and Andre Douglas, mission specialist, are seen during the Artemis 3 crew announcement event, Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Image: NASA/John Kraus NASA Administrator…
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NASA Names Four-Astronaut Crew for Artemis III Docking Mission with SpaceX and Blue Origin Landers
NASA has selected three American astronauts and one European astronaut to fly on Artemis III, a landmark mission scheduled for late 2027 that will conduct the first in-space docking demonstrations between NASA’s Orion spacecraft and lunar landers developed by SpaceX and Blue Origin. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the crew during a ceremony in Houston…
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Koch and crewmates back on Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Christina Koch is helped from the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft after landing in Kazakhstan Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Christina Koch, veteran of six spacewalks outside the International Space Station — including the first all-female excursion — joined a Russian commander and an Italian flight engineer for a…
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Live coverage: Space station crew safely returns to Earth
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Astronauts perform third spacewalk to fix cosmic ray detector
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT) after conclusion of spacewalk. Astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s robotic arm during Monday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now After prepping their patient — a $2 billion cosmic ray detector — during two earlier spacewalks, two space station astronauts…
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Spacewalkers continue repair of cosmic ray detector
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm during a spacewalk Friday. Credit: NASA In a complex bit of orbital surgery, two spacewalking astronauts cut into a $2 billion cosmic ray detector Friday,…
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Soyuz capsule swaps docking ports on space station, clearing way for new arrival
In this video still, the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft is seen docked at the Poisk module on the International Space Station after a manual flyaround conducted by cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Flying by hand, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov undocked his Soyuz space capsule from the International Space Station late Sunday (U.S. time)…