Tag: Expedition 50
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo carrier reaches space station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 10th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Time lapse: Fully-assembed Falcon 9 rocket lifted atop launch pad 39A
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is again standing on launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this time with a Dragon supply ship on top ready to head on a resupply run to the International Space Station. The 20-minute process to raise the 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A was completed…
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Weather could stand in way of Falcon 9 launch Saturday
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket inside a SpaceX hangar at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX Rainy weather expected across Central Florida this weekend has a 50-50 chance of preventing the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Saturday on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, U.S. Air Force forecasters said Wednesday. The…
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Cargo manifest for SpaceX’s 10th space station resupply mission
File photo of a Dragon supply ship berthed at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA NOTE: Updated Feb. 17. The 10th dedicated cargo delivery mission by SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, and the first to liftoff from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, will carry more than 5,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space…
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Japanese cargo craft departs space station
The HTV 6 supply ship leaves the International Space Station on Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Japan’s sixth HTV supply ship departed the International Space Station on Friday and headed for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with trash and disused batteries from the research lab, but engineers will first use the spacecraft for…
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Station astronauts complete second battery swap spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Shane Kimbrough, left, maneuvers a battery adapter plate into position at the base of a space station solar array while Thomas Pesquet holds an aging nickel-hydrogen battery that later was mounted atop the plate. Credit: NASA TV Two space station astronauts carried out a trouble-free five-hour 58-minute spacewalk…
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Video: Highlights of second Expedition 50 spacewalk
Video highlight reel of Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Thomas Pesquet conducting six-hour spacewalk on Jan. 13.
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Video: Narrated preview of Jan. 13 spacewalk
This is a narrated animation previewing the steps and activities to be performed by the International Space Station astronauts during the battery replacement spacewalk on Jan. 13.
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Astronauts set for Friday spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two astronauts plan to venture outside the International Space Station Friday, taking over from earlier robotic arm operations to help replace a set of batteries used to store power from one of the lab’s four sets of solar arrays. The goal is to replace 12 aging nickel-hydrogen batteries…
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Video: Expedition 50 spacewalk highlights
Video highlight reel of Expedition 50 commander Shane Kimbrough and flight engineer Peggy Whitson conducting six-hour 32-minute spacewalk on Jan. 6.