Tag: Alexey Ovchinin

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A Soyuz rocket lifts off with the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A normally reliable Soyuz FG rocket malfunctioned two minutes after liftoff from Kazakhstan Thursday, forcing a Russian cosmonaut and his NASA crewmate to execute an emergency abort and a steep-but-safe return to Earth a…

  • Russians plan Thursday launch of two to space station

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague pose outside their Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft Oct. 6 during pre-flight testing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov One week after a Russian Soyuz spacecraft departed the International Space Station and brought three crew members back to…

  • Live coverage: Soyuz crew safe after emergency landing

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  • Photos: Soyuz transferred to Baikonur launch pad

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    A Soyuz rocket poised to send two new crew members to the International Space Station rolled to its launch pad Tuesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG rocket emerged from an assembly building at the Central Asia spaceport at sunrise Tuesday. Lying on its side, the three-stage launcher rode a specially-designed rail car…

  • Photos: Crew departs on half-year space station expedition

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    Check out a pictorial retrospective on Friday’s launch of three new space station crew members from Kazakhstan, riding an iconic Soyuz booster to orbit and arriving at the 250-mile-high research complex less than six hours later. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, kicking off his fourth voyage to the International Space Station, is set to take command…

  • Soyuz docks with space station with fresh crew

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Photo credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a veteran NASA astronaut blasted off from Kazakhstan Friday, chased down the International Space Station and glided to a smooth automated docking, boosting the lab’s crew back to six. After trouble-free countdown, the Soyuz TMA-20M/46S booster’s…

  • Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station

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    A Soyuz rocket climbed away from a historic launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday with three new crew members heading for the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, making his first trip into space, sat in the commander’s seat of the Soyuz TMA-20M spaceship for the launch at 2126:38 GMT (5:26:38…

  • Soyuz crew transport arrives at launch pad

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    A Russian Soyuz rocket has reached its last stop before liftoff Friday with two Russian cosmonauts and veteran NASA flight engineer Jeff Williams, who is slated to break the record for the most cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut. The kerosene-fueled rocket is set for launch at 2126 GMT (5:26 p.m. EDT)…