Tag: Peggy Whitson

  • Whitson’s station expedition extended three months

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of astronaut Peggy Whitson inside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, have agreed to extend astronaut Peggy Whitson’s stay aboard the International Space Station by three months to enable uninterrupted research aboard the orbital laboratory during a period when…

  • Kimbrough, Whitson gear up for spacewalk

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    For the second time in less than a week, astronauts will leave their quarters inside the International Space Station on Thursday to outfit a relocated docking adapter to eventually receive Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew capsules. Space station commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Peggy Whitson will put on their pressurized spacesuits and switch them…

  • Spacewalkers cope with lost cover; NASA’s Peggy Whitson sets a women’s record

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    NASA spacewalkers Peggy Whitson and Shane Kimbrough work on the International Space Station. The astronauts had to improvise a fix to make up for a lost piece of cloth shielding. (NASA TV) NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson set a new record for female spacewalkers at the International Space Station today, during an outing that required a little…

  • Spacewalkers improvise after fabric shield floats away

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Shane Kimbrough prepares equipment before exiting the airlock on Thursday’s spacewalk. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, setting a new record as the world’s most experienced female spacewalker, floated outside the International Space Station Thursday and continued work to set up a second docking port for…

  • Spacewalkers continue station battery refresh with EVA

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: @Thom_astro Two spacewalking astronauts working outside the International Space Station Friday completed work to replace aging batteries in one of the lab’s eight main solar power circuits. A second spacewalk next week, along with additional work with the station’s robot arm, will upgrade a second power channel.…

  • Soyuz docking boosts station crew size back to six

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two days after launch from Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz ferry ship glided to a smooth docking with the International Space Station Saturday, bringing a veteran cosmonaut, a Frenchman making his first flight and NASA’s most experienced female astronaut to the lab complex. With commander Oleg Novitskiy at the…

  • Doubleheader in space! Trio arrives at space station, weather satellite lifts off

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    An Atlas 5 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending the GOES-R weather satellite into space. (United Launch Alliance Photo) NASA and its space partners juggled an arrival and a departure today: First, three new crew members docked with the International Space Station to begin a months-long stay in orbit. Then…

  • Photos: Station crew suits up, blasts off on Soyuz rocket

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    Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, French-born European Space Agency flight engineer Thomas Pesquet and veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson put on their Sokol spacesuits, boarded their Soyuz capsule and blasted into orbit Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio began a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST)…

  • Space station trip makes NASA’s Peggy Whitson the oldest woman in space

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    At the age of 56, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is beginning a months-long tour of duty on the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Today’s liftoff of a Soyuz spaceship heading for the International Space Station launched NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson into the history books as well. The three-time spaceflier, who turns 57…

  • Soyuz takes off, heads for space station

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz rocket lifted off at 2020 GMT (3:20 p.m. EST) Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls By the light of a waning moon, a Russian rocket carrying a veteran cosmonaut, a French flight engineer making his first flight and America’s most experienced female astronaut blasted off and streaked smoothly…