Tag: Expedition 43

  • Kelly describes re-adaptation to gravity, life on Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, re-adapting to gravity, people and wide open spaces after a record 340 days cooped up aboard the International Space Station, said Friday his muscles and joints are a bit sore — “just about all of ’em” — his skin is surprisingly sensitive…

  • Record-setting space station crew lands after 340-day mission

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was in good spirits after returning to Earth. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko ended a record-setting 340-day stay in orbit with a fiery Super Tuesday plunge to Earth, settling to a jarring rocket-assisted touchdown on the steppe of…

  • Kelly, Kornienko about to wrap up 340-day mission

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko pose for a photo on the International Space Station in January after 300 days in space. Credit: NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are making final preparations for return to Earth Tuesday evening, closing out a record…

  • Photos: Space crew welcomed home after 199-day mission

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    Three space station residents crammed inside a capsule smaller than a compact car landed on the austere plans of Kazakhstan on Thursday, returning to Earth for their first taste of gravity and whiff of nature in nearly seven months. Commanded by veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who was flanked by European Space Agency flight engineer Samantha…

  • U.S.-Russian-Italian crew returns to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-15M landing capsule’s braking rockets fire moments before touchdown at 9:44 a.m. EDT (1344 GMT) in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and an Italian wrapping up her first space flight boarded a Russian Soyuz ferry craft early Thursday, undocked from the…

  • Live coverage: Station crew safely lands in Kazakhstan

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    Mission Status Center Live coverage of the Expedition 43 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Three station fliers set for return to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and Italian flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti donned their Sokol spacesuits last month for a landing rehearsal exercise. Credit: NASA Three space station crew members packed up for a fiery return to Earth Thursday, wrapping up a nearly 200-day mission…

  • Russia updates launch schedule for ISS crews, cargo

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    Updated at 11 p.m. EDT NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui will launch to the International Space Station in late July. Credit: NASA/GCTC The next three-person crew will launch to the International Space Station sometime between July 23 and July 25 after a two-month delay triggered by…

  • Progress failure probe points to linkage with Soyuz rocket

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    Russian technicians work on the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1a rocket and Progress M-27M spacecraft before their doomed April 28 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia Russia says a design bug from the pairing of a Progress spacecraft with an upgraded version of the venerable Soyuz launcher led to the loss of…

  • Space station module moved to clear path for cargo ships

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    Ground controllers powered up the International Space Station’s robotic arm and repositioned a storage module Wednesday to give visiting cargo delivery vehicles a second parking port at the complex. The reconfiguration is another step in preparing the space station to receive commercial crew vehicles owned by Boeing and SpaceX. When the changes are complete later…