Tag: Terry Virts
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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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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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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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Astronauts install antennas for commercial crew capsules
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts outside the International Space Station on Sunday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Terry Virts and space station commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore ventured back outside Sunday for their third spacewalk in eight days to complete initial preparations for upcoming dockings by commercially developed…
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NASA approves Sunday spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION International Space Station managers Friday cleared astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts to proceed with a third spacewalk Sunday, as originally planned, after concluding a small amount of water in Virts’ space helmet after an EVA Wednesday was an understood condition and…
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Successful spacewalk ends with water leak
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts blows on a bubble of water that seeped into his helmet after Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday for the second of three spacewalks to help ready the lab…
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Photos from this weekend’s spacewalk
Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Saturday, running more than 300 feet of wiring that will eventually be connected to new docking ports to receive commercial spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX. Expedition 42 crew commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and flight engineer Terry Virts, both veteran space shuttle pilots, spent nearly seven…
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Astronauts prep space station for commercial capsules
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Terry Virts (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) work outside the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Saturday and installed wiring needed for two new docking mechanisms that will be…