Tag: Alexander Gerst
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Crew of three safely lands in Kazakhstan after 197-day space mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst exits the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft shortly after landing Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer and a NASA astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth overnight Wednesday, landing on the snowy steppe of…
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Station crew set for overnight landing in Kazakhstan
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst, and Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev are set for landing in Kazakhstan Thursday. Credit: Roscosmos Eight days after a dramatic spacewalk to inspect the site of a leak in the hull of his Soyuz ferry ship, Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev,…
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Photos: Russian spacewalkers perform ‘surgery’ on Soyuz spacecraft
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (red stripes) and Sergey Prokopyev (blue stripes) inspect the site of a repaired air leak on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft on a Dec. 11 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst Armed with a knife, scissors and other cutting tools, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev went outside the…
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SpaceX makes another space station cargo delivery
SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship approaches the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA A commercial supply ship owned and operated by SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, delivering a pair of NASA experiments to demonstrate satellite refueling techniques and monitor changes in Earth’s forests, along with a special holiday menu of…
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Soyuz set to depart station bringing crew of three back to Earth
Members of the Expedition 56 crew gather for a meal of “cosmic sushi” earlier this week. From left to right: Drew Feustel, Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Sergey Prokopyev, Oleg Artemyev, Ricky Arnold and Alexander Gerst. Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos A cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts finished packing up their Soyuz ferry ship Wednesday and prepared to undock from…
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Astronauts send home views of ‘nightmare’ Hurricane Florence
A crew member on the International Space Station took this image of Hurricane Florence in the Atlantic Ocean on the morning of Sept. 12. At that time, the storm packed maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. Credit: NASA Astronauts have captured views of Hurricane Florence raging in the Atlantic Ocean and heading toward a likely…
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Cygnus cargo ship released from space station, heads for extended mission
The Cygnus supply ship flies away from the International Space Station after release from Canadarm 2 on Sunday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Closing out 52 days at the International Space Station, an automated Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft left the research outpost Sunday to climb into a higher orbit for deployment of six CubeSats and…
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Soyuz delivers crew of three to International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station’s Rassvet module for docking Friday. Credit: NASA TV Two days after launch from Kazakhstan, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a crew of three wrapped up a problem-free rendezvous Friday, docking at the International Space Station’s Earth-facing Rassvet port less…
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U.S.-Russian-German crew launched to space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft took off from Kazakhstan at 1112:39 GMT (7:12:39 a.m. EDT; 5:12:39 p.m. local time) with a three-person crew on-board. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Three days after a trio of space station fliers returned to Earth, a Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer and a NASA…
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Live coverage: Soyuz crew docks with International Space Station
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