Tag: Alexey Ovchinin
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Soyuz spacecraft lands in Kazakhstan with three-man crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft’s landing capsule descends under an orange and white main parachute moments for touchdown Thursday in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Leaving six crewmates behind in orbit, a Russian commander, his NASA co-pilot and a first-time flier from the United Arab Emirates undocked from the International…
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Live coverage: Three-man crew, including first UAE astronaut, lands in Kazakhstan
Live coverage of the Expedition 60 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Soyuz spacecraft, humanoid robot return to Earth after 16-day test flight
The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft departs the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now An unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying a humanoid robot instead of cosmonauts, parachuted to a rare nighttime landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan Friday (U.S. time) to wrap up a test flight to the International Space Station that paved the way for…
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Live coverage: Soyuz test flight concludes with landing in Kazakhstan
Live coverage of the test flight of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Second time’s the charm for Soyuz docking
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station late Monday, seen here through a camera looking out of the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Two days after a dramatic docking abort, an unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft glided in for a…
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Soyuz capsule swaps docking ports on space station, clearing way for new arrival
In this video still, the Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft is seen docked at the Poisk module on the International Space Station after a manual flyaround conducted by cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Flying by hand, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov undocked his Soyuz space capsule from the International Space Station late Sunday (U.S. time)…
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Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) with docking and undocking times. Expedition 60 flight engineer Luca Parmitano trains inside the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft before launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/GCTC Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, joined by Italian flight engineer Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, plans to relocate his…
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Soyuz docking aborted at International Space Station
The Russian Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft seen during approach to the space station Saturday. Credit: NASA TV Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station commanded an approaching unpiloted Soyuz spacecraft to abort its docking Saturday after the ship’s automated rendezvous system ran into trouble, leaving ground teams assessing what went wrong and whether to attempt another…
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Cosmonauts complete tasks outside space station, honor spacewalk pioneer
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin work outside the Pirs docking compartment during the fourth spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Two Russian cosmonauts stepped outside the International Space Station Wednesday, sent birthday greetings to former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first man to…
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Space station crew back at six with successful Soyuz docking
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques captured this view of the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft before docking Thursday. Credit: David Saint-Jacques A Russian cosmonaut and his NASA co-pilot, five months after riding out a dramatic launch abort last October, finally made it into orbit Thursday and, along with a NASA astronaut…