Tag: Soyuz
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Photos: Space crew welcomed home after 199-day mission
Three space station residents crammed inside a capsule smaller than a compact car landed on the austere plans of Kazakhstan on Thursday, returning to Earth for their first taste of gravity and whiff of nature in nearly seven months. Commanded by veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who was flanked by European Space Agency flight engineer Samantha…
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U.S.-Russian-Italian crew returns to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-15M landing capsule’s braking rockets fire moments before touchdown at 9:44 a.m. EDT (1344 GMT) in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and an Italian wrapping up her first space flight boarded a Russian Soyuz ferry craft early Thursday, undocked from the…
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Station trio return home on Soyuz TMA-15M
NASA’s Terry Virts, Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos have returned home on their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft following undocking from the International Space Station on Thursday. After what proved to be a smooth entry, their extended mission finally came to a conclusion when their Soyuz safely touched down under parachutes on the steppe…
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Live coverage: Station crew safely lands in Kazakhstan
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Three station fliers set for return to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and Italian flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti donned their Sokol spacesuits last month for a landing rehearsal exercise. Credit: NASA Three space station crew members packed up for a fiery return to Earth Thursday, wrapping up a nearly 200-day mission…
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Russia conducts surprise Soyuz 2-1A launch carrying Kobalt-M
Russia has launched its Soyuz 2-1A rocket in a surprise mission from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at 15:24 UTC. The launch, using a rocket that recently failed during the Progress M-27M mission, was clouded under secrecy due to its payload, the Kobalt-M spy satellite – rumored to be the final film-return photo reconnaissance spacecraft. Soyuz 2-1A Launch: The Soyuz…
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Soyuz rocket returns to flight with military launch
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket blasts off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1524 GMT (11:24 a.m. EDT). Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia successfully launched a Kobalt-type optical reconnaissance satellite Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket, marking the workhorse booster’s first flight since the failure of a resupply launch to the International Space Station in April. The three-stage…
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Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket
Russian technicians work on the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and Progress M-27M spacecraft before their doomed April 28 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia Russia says a design bug from the pairing of a Progress spacecraft with an upgraded version of the venerable Soyuz launcher led to the loss of…
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Dashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking
A video camera mounted inside a Russian Soyuz capsule captured stunning views of the docking of a U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station in March, supplying a spectacular visual of a cosmic ballet occurring 250 miles above Earth. Shooting through a window on the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, the camera recorded the last phase of…
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Soyuz 2-1A caused Progress M-27M failure and ISS schedule changes
The failure of the Progress M-27M cargo run to the International Space Station (ISS) was caused by issues with the Soyuz 2-1A third stage, Roscosmos announced on Tuesday. As expected, the resulting fallout of the failure has resulted in schedule changes on the Station’s arrivals and departures board, with the main impact felt by three…