Tag: Scott Kelly
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Video: Change of command aboard International Space Station
With his year in orbit at an end, Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly hands command of the International Space Station to Expedition 47 commander Tim Kopra.
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Video: Scott Kelly’s in-flight news conference before landing
As his year-long mission aboard the International Space Station draws to a close, Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly of NASA gives a final in-flight news conference with U.S. media on Feb. 25. Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov are preparing for their return to Earth on March 1, U.S. time, aboard the Soyuz…
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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly: I could spend another year in space, but I’m ready to come home
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly answers questions from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA) NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is getting ready to come home after spending a longer stretch in orbit than any other American in history, but he says he could stay in space for double that time. “I could go another 100 days. I could go…
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Ape … in … space! Watch Scott Kelly’s primo prank on International Space Station
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly floats through the International Space Station in a gorilla suit. (Credit: NASA) Leave it to Scott Kelly, NASA’s record-holder for longest continuous time spent in space, to go big and go home: While winding down nearly a year in orbit, he donned an ape suit to terrorize a crewmate on the…
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HoloLens in space: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly dons Microsoft’s holographic headset
NASA’s Scott Kelly wearing a HoloLens headset on the International Space Station. (Via Microsoft) Microsoft this morning posted an initial picture of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly wearing the company’s HoloLens holographic headset on the International Space Station — part of a collaboration between the Redmond company and the U.S. space administration. The initiative, dubbed “Sidekick,” currently uses…
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Successful spacewalk frees up robot arm transporter
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake tweeted this photo of one of the spacewalkers inside the space station’s Quest airlock. Credit: NASA/ESA/Tim Peake Space station commander Scott Kelly and newly-arrived flight engineer Tim Kopra ventured outside the lab complex Monday and freed up a stalled robot arm-carrying transporter…
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Successful spacewalk frees up robot arm transporter
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake tweeted this photo of one of the spacewalkers inside the space station’s Quest airlock. Credit: NASA/ESA/Tim Peake Space station commander Scott Kelly and newly-arrived flight engineer Tim Kopra ventured outside the lab complex Monday and freed up a stalled robot arm-carrying transporter…
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Unscheduled spacewalk on tap Monday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An unexpected, quickly-planned spacewalk is on tap Monday to troubleshoot a problem preventing the International Space Station’s robot arm transporter from reaching a worksite where it can be locked down, a requirement before a Russian Progress cargo ship can dock later in the week. The Progress MS-01/62P supply…
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Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs
Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions. NASA has released pictures from the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 spacewalks showing Kelly and Lindgren snapping space selfies and working near…
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Spacewalkers reconfigure station cooling system
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly, in an all-white spacesuit, is camouflaged against the space station’s structure in this picture taken during Friday’s spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Credit: Sergey Volkov/Roscosmos Space station commander Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren carried out a busy but mostly trouble-free spacewalk Friday, routing ammonia…