Tag: Expedition 42
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Astronauts, spacesuits ready for spacewalk Saturday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts will begin a series of three spacewalks Saturday. Credit: NASA NASA space station managers decided Thursday to delay the first two of three planned spacewalks by one day to give flight controllers and engineers a chance to catch their…
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Video: Progress launches and docks
The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
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Photos: Russian supply ship blasts off from Kazakhstan
Russia’s Progress M-26M cargo carrier lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, climbed through clouds and into orbit, then executed an on-time radar-guided docking with the International Space Station six hours later. Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Energia Photo credit: Roscosmos Photo credit: Roscosmos…
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Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station
The Progress M-26M spacecraft lifted off at 1100 GMT (6 a.m. EST; 5 p.m. local time) Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Russia launched a Progress resupply mission Tuesday heading for the International Space Station with more than 6,000 pounds of fuel, supplies and experiments to support the lab’s six-person…
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Progress cargo mission ready for launch to space station
A Russian Progress supply ship packed with 3.1 tons of cargo and propellant to refuel the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress M-26M cargo craft will blast off at 6:00:17 a.m. EST (1100:17 GMT) Tuesday atop a Soyuz rocket, which rolled out to Launch Complex…
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Video: Time lapse of ATV’s final departure from ISS
This time lapse video shows Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle backing away from the International Space Station for the last time Saturday. Undocking occurred at 1342 GMT (8:42 a.m. EST) as the space station flew 257 miles over Mongolia. Credit: NASA/ESA Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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Europe’s ATV space freighter bids final goodbye to space station
The fifth ATV mission — dubbed Georges Lemaitre — approaches the International Space Station before docking Aug. 12. Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos Europe’s fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle departed the International Space Station for the last time Saturday, closing out one of the European Space Agency’s flagship programs as the bus-sized spaceship heads for a…
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Europe’s last ATV set to depart from space station
Artist’s concept of Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle docked with the International Space Station. Credit: ESA–D. Ducros, 2014 A European supply freighter is set to undock from the International Space Station on Saturday, heading for a destructive dive into Earth’s atmosphere about 30 hours later after a power system failure forced the cancellation of an experiment…
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Photos: Lightning shines in the eye of a cyclone
Electrifying photos taken from the International Space Station show flashes of lightning glowing like spotlights in the eye of Tropical Cyclone Bansi in the Indian Ocean. Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti shared the images on Twitter. She took the photos as the storm churned in the Southern Indian Ocean near Mauritius. Tropical Cyclone Bansi packed maximum winds of…
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Astronauts return to US side of space station after leak scare
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…