Tag: Terry Virts

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    Live coverage of the Expedition 42 crew’s spacewalks to outfit the International Space Station for a new set of docking adapters and communications equipment to welcome commercial crew spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Astronauts return to US side of space station after leak scare

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) Astronauts return to the US segment of the International Space Station wearing masks as a precaution. Image: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now. Concern about a possible ammonia coolant leak early Wednesday prompted astronauts aboard the International Space Station to evacuate the…

  • Three-person crew docks with space station

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Updated after docking Five hours and 48 minutes after a sky-lighting launch from Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz ferry craft carrying a crew of three representing Russia, the United States and Italy, glided to a smooth docking at the International Space Station late Sunday, boosting the lab’s…

  • International crew set for launch to space station Sunday

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-15M crew at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (left to right): NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Credit: NASA In clear but frigid weather, Russian engineers hauled a Soyuz rocket to the launch pad Friday, setting the…

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    Riding a specialized railroad car before dawn Friday, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of a cavernous assembly building and arrived at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff Sunday with American, Russian and Italian crew members heading for the International Space Station. The three-person crew, led by Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov,…