Tag: Expedition 46
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Photos: Soyuz crew capsule parachutes to landing in Kazakhstan
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man crew parachuted to the flat grasslands of Kazakhstan on Saturday, returning home from the International Space Station with cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and British flight engineer Tim Peake. The Soyuz TMA-19M spaceship touched down at 0915 GMT (5:15 a.m. EDT; 3:15 p.m. Kazakh time) about 90 miles…
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Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and a British flier strapped into a Soyuz spacecraft, undocked from International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Saturday, safely landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 186-day mission. Dropping out of a partly cloudy…
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Live coverage: Space station crew concludes 186 days in orbit
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Scott Kelly leaving NASA after record-setting space station flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Houston on March 3 after his return to Earth the previous day. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, just back from a record 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station, is leaving NASA at the end of the month,…
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Scott Kelly leaving NASA after record-setting space station flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Houston on March 3 after his return to Earth the previous day. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Astronaut Scott Kelly, just back from a record 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station, is leaving NASA at the end of the month,…
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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 in good shape after marathon mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Scott Kelly, in good spirits and looking surprisingly fit after a record 340 days in space, said Wednesday he could have stayed up longer if necessary, giving him confidence future astronauts will be up to the challenge of even longer flights to Mars and beyond. That said,…
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Scott Kelly and crewmates bid goodbye to space station
In the final hours of a 340-day mission, Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko said goodbye to their crewmates and closed the hatch to the International Space Station on Tuesday, heading for a parachute-assisted touchdown in Kazakhstan a few hours later. They will be joined by veteran Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who has spent the last…
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Live coverage: Station crew lands after 11 months in orbit
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