Tag: Expedition 50
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Spacewalkers continue station battery refresh with EVA
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: @Thom_astro Two spacewalking astronauts working outside the International Space Station Friday completed work to replace aging batteries in one of the lab’s eight main solar power circuits. A second spacewalk next week, along with additional work with the station’s robot arm, will upgrade a second power channel.…
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Video: Narrated preview of Jan. 6 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. 6.
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Video: NASA officials preview space station battery replacement spacewalks
From the Johnson Space Center in Houston, officials from NASA brief reporters on two upcoming spacewalks outside the International Space Station to replace aging batteries in the outpost’s power grid.
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Spending Christmas in space
Apollo 8 A Christmas Eve reading from the book of Genesis by the Apollo 8 astronauts — commander Frank Borman, lunar module pilot Bill Anders and command module pilot Jim Lovell — from lunar orbit in 1968. International Space Station A holiday message from members of the Expedition 50 crew — Shane Kimbrbugh, Peggy Whitson…
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Japanese HTV makes battery delivery to International Space Station
The sixth Japanese HTV supply ship was grappled by the space station’s robotic arm at 1037 GMT (5:37 a.m. EST) Tuesday after a four-day pursuit following launch on an H-2B rocket. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Four days after a picture-perfect blastoff from southern Japan, a cargo-carrying supply freighter arrived at the International Space Station on…
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Live coverage: Japanese HTV resupply freighter captured by station robotic arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an H-2B rocket with Japan’s sixth H-2 Transfer Vehicle on a resupply mission 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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Japan’s HTV supply ship blasts off for space station
The 186-foot-tall (56-meter) H-2B rocket takes off from southern Japan Friday. Credit: MHI A Japanese H-2B rocket launched toward the International Space Station on Friday with a fresh set of high-power batteries, critical parts for the research lab’s carbon dioxide scrubber, and several tons of food, water and provisions. The unpiloted HTV cargo carrier on…
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Photos: H-2B rocket emerges for rollout to launch pad at daybreak
A Japanese resupply freighter and its H-2B rocket booster rolled out of the vehicle assembly building at the Tanegashima Space Center just before sunrise Friday for the half-hour trip to the launch pad. Mounted on top of a mobile platform, the 186-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket headed for Launch Pad No. 2 at the Yoshinobu launch complex,…
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Japanese cargo carrier set for launch Friday
The sixth HTV cargo ship from Japan is fully assembled in this image, ready to meet its H-2B launcher. Credit: JAXA Japan’s sixth HTV supply ship is slated to depart a picturesque spaceport on Tanegashima Island on Friday to start a four-day pursuit of the International Space Station with a cache of experiments, supplies and…
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Russian space station cargo freighter lost on launch
Updated at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT) Thursday. Russian mission control said Thursday an unpiloted Progress space station supply ship carrying nearly 5,400 pounds of rocket fuel, food, water and a new spacesuit burned up in Earth’s atmosphere shortly after it blasted off from Kazakhstan, and evidence points to a problem with the third stage of the…