Tag: Expedition 45
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Kelly describes re-adaptation to gravity, life on Earth
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…
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Record-setting space station crew lands after 340-day mission
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…
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Kelly, Kornienko about to wrap up 340-day mission
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…
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, bringing three station crewmen back to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Kimiya Yui, Oleg Kononenko and Kjell Lindgren bid goodbye to their space station crewmates Friday before departing the complex and heading for landing. Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly Three space station fliers floated into their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the lab complex and plunged back to Earth Friday, making…
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Live coverage: International crew lands in Kazakhstan
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Three space station fliers set for landing Friday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko and Japanese flight engineer Kimiya Yui are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday. Credit: NASA In a rapid-fire crew exchange, three space station fliers return to Earth Friday morning, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan just four days…
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U.S. resupply of space station successfully resumes
Credit: Roscosmos CAPE CANAVERAL — The astronauts living aboard the International Space Station snagged a free-flying commercial cargo ship filled with a bounty of supplies and new science this morning, pulling the vessel aboard as the two craft flew in formation 252 miles above the world. The Orbital ATK’s private Cygnus freighter, dubbed the SS…
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Spacewalk snapshots show recent station EVAs
Clad in white spacesuits, astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren recently floated outside the International Space Station on a pair of spacewalks, and the duo carried cameras with them to document the excursions. NASA has released pictures from the Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 spacewalks showing Kelly and Lindgren snapping space selfies and working near…
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Spacewalkers reconfigure station cooling system
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly, in an all-white spacesuit, is camouflaged against the space station’s structure in this picture taken during Friday’s spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov. Credit: Sergey Volkov/Roscosmos Space station commander Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren carried out a busy but mostly trouble-free spacewalk Friday, routing ammonia…
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Kelly, Lindgren set for second spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly is pictured outside the International Space Station during an Oct. 28 spacewalk. Credit: NASA Space station commander Scott Kelly and flight engineer Kjell Lindgren are gearing up for their second spacewalk in nine days Friday, a planned six-and-a-half-hour excursion to reconfigure the ammonia cooling system…