Tag: Soyuz
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Soyuz TMA-16M docks and begins historic one year expedition
A Soyuz FG rocket launched the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ahead of a successful docking with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday. Onboard the Russian workhorse were Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikail Kornienko, along with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly. Kornienko and Kelly will both spend a full year on the orbital…
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Soyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew
A Soyuz rocket is sitting on a historic launch pad in Kazakhstan after a railroad journey at sunrise Wednesday positioned the crew ferry craft for liftoff Friday with a three-man crew destined for the International Space Station, including two spaceflight veterans who will spend nearly one year in orbit. Riding a specially-made rail car, the…
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Photos: Galileo navigation satellites added to Soyuz rocket
Twin satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system were raised on top of a Russian-made Soyuz rocket late Tuesday and installed for Friday’s launch from French Guiana to expand the growing network of spacecraft nearly 15,000 miles above Earth. Stacked side-by-side inside the Soyuz rocket’s nose cone, the payloads were rolled out of a clean room…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket transferred to jungle launch pad
Russian technicians rolled a Soyuz rocket from its integration hangar to the launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday morning, positioning the booster to receive two Galileo navigation satellites ahead of liftoff Friday. The three-stage rocket made the 2,300-foot trip on rail tracks riding a specialized transporter-erector system. The journey began Tuesday after sunrise, and…
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Photos: Soyuz landing craft touches down in wintry Kazakhstan
A three-member space crew returned to Earth just after sunrise Thursday in Kazakhstan, descending through a sun-splashed sky under an orange and white parachute before dipping through fog for a rocket-cushioned touchdown on the snowy steppes of Central Asia. Soyuz TMA-14M commander Alexander Samokutyaev, flight engineer Elena Serova and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore landed at…
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, returning international crew home
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Elena Serova, Alexander Samokutyaev and Butch Wilmore recline after exiting their Soyuz spacecraft following landing. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Three space station fliers — the outgoing NASA commander and two Russian cosmonauts — undocked and returned to Earth Wednesday, ending a 167-day stay in space with a…
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ISS trio end ISS adventure with Soyuz TMA-14M landing
NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore – along with flight engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova – bid farewell to their six month tour on the International Space Station (ISS) arrived home aboard their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft on Wednesday. Their mission concluded with a parachute-assisted – loss-of-communication drama – landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan early on Thursday…
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Space station crew ready to close out 167-day mission
Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space Station and head for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 167-day space voyage. The three-person crew will depart the 450-ton research complex at…
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Russian intelligence gets an upgrade with satellite launch
Russia launched a next-generation military reconnaissance satellite Friday, ushering in an era of digital mapping from orbit after decades of relying on film returned to Earth inside landing capsules. The mission blasted off at 1101 GMT (6:01 a.m. EST) Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow. A three-stage kerosene-fueled Soyuz 2-1a…
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Photos: Russian supply ship blasts off from Kazakhstan
Russia’s Progress M-26M cargo carrier lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, climbed through clouds and into orbit, then executed an on-time radar-guided docking with the International Space Station six hours later. Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Energia Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos…