Tag: Soyuz
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Soyuz MS-04 lands as Peggy Whitson ends record-breaking mission
After four and a half months in space, Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-04 returned three spaceflight veterans to Earth – including one who has been on orbit far longer than the craft itself. Landing on the Kazakh steppes at 07:22 local time in Kazakhstan on Sunday, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson concluded an unplanned 288 day mission aboard…
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NASA’s most experienced astronaut set for return to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Peggy Whitson on-board the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Peggy Whitson, America’s most experienced astronaut with nearly two years in orbit over three missions, returns to Earth Saturday after an extended 288-day stay aboard the International Space Station, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan with Soyuz MS-04…
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Space station trio returns to Earth: NASA’s Peggy Whitson racks up 665-day record
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is helped out of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft just minutes after she and two fellow spacefliers landed in a remote area Kazakhstan. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two other spacefliers capped off a record-setting orbital mission today with their return from the International Space Station. The…
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Soyuz MS-05 returns Station back to full crew
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, has launched three new crewmembers to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-05 vehicle. Liftoff was on schedule at 15:41 GMT (11:41 EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with a fast-tracked, four-orbit rendezvous with the Station. The MS-05 crew docked to the ISS at 21:54 GMT. Soyuz…
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Three spacefliers join International Space Station’s crew after a quick six-hour trip
Three fresh crew members arrived at the International Space Station today aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft today, just six hours after their launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA’s Randy Bresnik, Russia’s Sergey Ryazanskiy and Italy’s Paolo Nespoli bring the station’s crew back to its full strength of six for Expedition 52/53. NASA’s Peggy…
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Soyuz 2-1A launches with Kanopus-V-IK and over 70 satellites
Russia conducted a complex mission Friday to deploy seventy-three satellites via a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with a Fregat upper stage. Following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:36 local time (06:36 UTC), the Fregat upper stage performed a series of burns over eight-and-a-half hours to inject its payloads into their planned polar orbits. Russian…
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Progress cargo ship docks with space station, tightening up on orbital parking
With today’s arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship, the International Space Station now has three robotic spaceships and a Soyuz lifeboat parked at its ports. Two days after its launch from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, the robotic Progress ship hooked up to the station’s Zvezda service module at 4:37 a.m. PT to deliver more than…
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Soyuz MS-03 undocks, conducts rare two-person landing
In what is a rare event in recent history, the Russian Federal Space Agency has returned the Soyuz MS-03 crew capsule from the International Space Station with just two crew members. The Soyuz undocked from the ISS at 06:47 EDT (10:47 GMT) Friday, 2 June with two of the Station’s five crew members – with landing…
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Russia sends military satellite into orbit for missile warnings
Russia lofted a military satellite Thursday to join a network of orbiting early warning stations detecting and tracking missile launches around the world, providing the Russian government notice of potential attack. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military-run base about 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow, at 0634 GMT (2:34…
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Soyuz 2-1B launches Tundra missile detection spacecraft
Russia has launched a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from Plesetsk Thursday carrying a Tundra missile detection spacecraft, ending a year-long gap in Russian military satellite launches. Liftoff occurred on schedule at 09:33 Moscow Time (06:33 UTC). Russian Launch: Thursday’s launch carried the second satellite for Russia’s EKS missile early warning system. EKS, or Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema –…