Tag: Expedition 48

  • 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: Next space station trio finishing training at Star City

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    Expedition 48-49 Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and flight engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, along with their backups, conduct final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on May 26 and 27. Ivanishin, Rubins and Onishi are scheduled to launch…

  • Photos: Crew departs on half-year space station expedition

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    Check out a pictorial retrospective on Friday’s launch of three new space station crew members from Kazakhstan, riding an iconic Soyuz booster to orbit and arriving at the 250-mile-high research complex less than six hours later. NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, kicking off his fourth voyage to the International Space Station, is set to take command…

  • Soyuz docks with space station with fresh crew

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Photo credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a veteran NASA astronaut blasted off from Kazakhstan Friday, chased down the International Space Station and glided to a smooth automated docking, boosting the lab’s crew back to six. After trouble-free countdown, the Soyuz TMA-20M/46S booster’s…

  • Video: Soyuz crew blasts off en route to space station

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    A Soyuz rocket climbed away from a historic launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday with three new crew members heading for the International Space Station. Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, making his first trip into space, sat in the commander’s seat of the Soyuz TMA-20M spaceship for the launch at 2126:38 GMT (5:26:38…

  • Soyuz crew transport arrives at launch pad

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    A Russian Soyuz rocket has reached its last stop before liftoff Friday with two Russian cosmonauts and veteran NASA flight engineer Jeff Williams, who is slated to break the record for the most cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut. The kerosene-fueled rocket is set for launch at 2126 GMT (5:26 p.m. EDT)…