Tag: Shane Kimbrough
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Kimbrough, Whitson gear up for spacewalk
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…
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Spacewalkers improvise after fabric shield floats away
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…
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Spacewalkers complete excursion outside International Space Station
Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet put on their self-contained spacesuits and headed outside the International Space Station on Friday for a six-and-a-half hour excursion to prepare for the relocation of a docking adapter, service the lab’s Dextre robot, and install a new computer relay box. The spacewalkers switched their suits to internal battery power…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft returns to Earth
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.
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Spacewalkers continue station battery refresh with EVA
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.…
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Video: Change of command ceremony held aboard the International Space Station
Departing Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin hands over International Space Station command to NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough. Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to return to Earth on Saturday, Oct. 29. Kimbrough and his two Russian crewmates — Sergey…
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Soyuz spacecraft delivers three new residents to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft closes in on docking with the International Space Station on Friday, backdropped by the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now An upgraded Soyuz ferry ship, the second in a new series featuring improved avionics, navigation and other systems, glided to a…
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Video: Soyuz capsule docks to the International Space Station
The Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and an American astronaut successfully docks to the International Space Station after a two-day trek from Earth.
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Russians delay next crew launch to station
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation inside the Soyuz rocket’s nose fairing in this Sept. 15 photo. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov The next launch of a Soyuz spacecraft carrying three space station fliers has been delayed indefinitely after testing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan revealed an unspecified technical problem, the Russian space agency…