Tag: Chris Cassidy
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Spacewalkers accomplish another round of space station battery swap outs
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) after end of spacewalk. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy are again working outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk today to begin the final phase of a multi-year upgrade of the research outpost’s solar array batteries. WATCH LIVE:…
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Behnken describes spacewalk views of Crew Dragon as “just awesome”
In this image taken July 1, a spacewalking astronaut snapped a view of the Crew Dragon spacecraft (at right) docked with the International Space Station. Japan’s HTV cargo ship, at bottom in gold, is also seen attached to the space station. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, now in the second half of his mission…
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Spacewalkers complete another round of battery replacement work
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is pictured outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk June 26. Credit: NASA Picking up where they left off last week, two space station astronauts ventured back outside the outpost Wednesday and completed the replacement of aging batteries in one of the lab’s…
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Cassidy, Behnken begin final series of space station battery upgrades
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken work outside the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Friday for the first of four planned spacewalks to wrap up a complex multi-year job to replace 48 aging batteries in…
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Astronauts gear up for Friday spacewalk amid planning for August Crew Dragon return
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken work with their spacesuits ahead of the first in a series of spacewalks scheduled for Friday. Credit: NASA Space station commander Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken plan to float outside Friday for the first of up to four spacewalks needed to…
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NASA anticipates August return for Hurley and Behnken
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking May 31. Credit: NASA SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will likely return to Earth in August to wrap up a test flight to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, a senior space agency official said Tuesday. The exact schedule…
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Making history, astronauts ride commercial capsule to space station
Russian flight engineer Ivan Vagner tweeted this picture of the newly-enlarged Expedition 63 crew Sunday on the International Space Station. Behnken and Hurley are seeing black shirts. Credit: Ivan Vagner/Roscosmos A Crew Dragon spaceship built and owned by SpaceX glided to an automated docking with the International Space Station Sunday, delivering NASA astronauts Doug Hurley…
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HTV supply ship successfully berthed at space station
Japan’s ninth HTV cargo craft is seen berthed to the International Space Station’s Harmony module after arriving Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The last of Japan’s current series of HTV cargo freighters arrived at the International Space Station Monday with a fresh set of lithium-ion batteries, ready for installation on the research lab’s solar power…
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Video and photos: Three-man crew launches from Kazakhstan
Riding nearly a million pounds of thrust, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian crewmates Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner rocketed into orbit April 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome en route to the International Space Station. The three-man crew lifted off at 1:05 p.m. Baikonur time (0805 GMT; 4:05 a.m. EDT) to begin a six-hour…
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Soyuz crew docks with the International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station on Thursday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now With an absence of fanfare amid coronavirus safety protocols, an upgraded Russian Soyuz rocket making its first piloted flight blasted off from Kazakhstan Thursday carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a…