Tag: Expedition 47

  • Photos: Soyuz crew capsule parachutes to landing in Kazakhstan

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    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…

  • Soyuz spacecraft brings home three-man station crew

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    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…

  • Three station fliers set for Saturday return to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko will fly in the center seat on the Soyuz TMA-19M capsule. In this image, he is flanked by Tim Peake (left) and Tim Kopra (right). Credit: NASA/GCTC Three space station crew members made final preparations Friday for undocking and landing in Kazakhstan early Saturday…

  • Live coverage: Space station crew concludes 186 days in orbit

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    Live coverage of the Expedition 47 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Cygnus leaves space station and conducts NASA fire experiment in microgravity

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    CAPE CANAVERAL — Bidding farewell to the International Space Station today, the commercial Cygnus cargo ship separated to a safe distance before igniting an intentional fire in microgravity like never before, all in the name of science. The NASA-sponsored Spacecraft Fire Experiment, or SAFFIRE, was conducted to better understand how flames will behave in weightlessness…

  • Launch of next space station crew moved to July

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    Japanese flight engineer Takuya Onishi, Russian Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins pause during their final Soyuz qualification exams May 27 in Star City, Russia. Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll Russian managers have delayed the launch of a Russian-U.S.-Japanese crew to the International Space Station two weeks until early July to allow time for additional…

  • Video: BEAM welcomes first astronaut

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    International Space Station astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch and floated into the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, experimental habitat today for the first time. BEAM was launched April 8 and successfully expanded on May 28 for a two-year test of its durability in space. The crew will enter the module periodically to retrieve…

  • NASA calls off inflation of experimental station habitat

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    Mission control used this grid to chart the progress of BEAM’s expansion. Credit: NASA TV Mission control halted the expansion of Bigelow Aerospace’s experimental space station module Thursday after the structure did not grow as predicted when air began flowing into it. Working in the International Space Station’s Tranquility module, astronaut Jeff Williams opened a…

  • Bigelow’s station habitat to be expanded Thursday

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    Artist’s concept of an astronaut entering BEAM. Credit: NASA Space station flight engineer Jeff Williams will send commands Thursday to pump air into an experimental soft-sided module developed by commercial space habitat builder Bigelow Aerospace, expanding the structure to four times its current size in a stepping stone to future orbital destinations. The Bigelow Expandable…

  • Cargo-carrying Dragon spaceship returns to Earth

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    The Dragon spacecraft descends to the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship departed the International Space Station on Wednesday, fired rocket thrusters to brake out of orbit, and parachuted to a picture-perfect splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with approximately 3,461 pounds (1,570 kilograms) of experiment samples and equipment. Concluding a 31-day…