Tag: Expedition 54
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Soyuz spacecraft brings three station fliers home
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-06 spaceship descends through a morning sky over Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Bidding their crewmates farewell, a Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts boarded their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the International Space Station and fell back to Earth Tuesday, landing safely on the snowy steppe…
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Live coverage: Three-man station crew lands in Kazakhstan
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Photos: Russian cargo freighter blasts off from snow-covered launch pad
A Russian Progress supply ship launched Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, firing into orbit from a snow-covered pad to haul three tons of fuel, water and equipment to the International Space Station. The Progress MS-08 supply cargo craft lifted off at 0813:33 GMT (3:13:33 a.m. EST; 2:13:33 p.m. Baikonur time) Tuesday aboard a…
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Spacewalking astronauts complete robot arm work
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese crewmate Norishige Kanai floated outside the International Space Station Friday, repositioned two robot arm grapple mechanisms following repair work last month and carried out a variety of “get-ahead” tasks before calling it a day. Floating in the Quest airlock,…
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Progress supply ship docks with International Space Station
The Progress MS-08 supply ship approaches the International Space Station during Thursday’s rendezvous and docking. Credit: NASA TV Russia’s Progress MS-08 cargo carrier glided to an automated radar-guided link-up with the International Space Station on Thursday with three tons of fuel, water, supplies and experiments. The unpiloted cargo freighter docked with the station’s Zvezda service…
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Soyuz rocket launches cargo freighter to International Space Station
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket boosted the Progress MS-08 cargo craft into orbit Tuesday. Credit: Roscosmos Running two days later after a last-minute abort Sunday, a Russian Progress resupply and refueling freighter lifted off in a blanket of fog Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to deliver three tons of cargo, propellant and water to the International Space…
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Resupply launch scrubbed, thwarting fast-track rendezvous with space station
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket and the Progress MS-08 supply ship moments after Sunday’s countdown was halted. Credit: Roscosmos The launch of a Russian Progress cargo ship aboard a Soyuz rocket was aborted in the final minute of the countdown Sunday, forcing a delay of at least two days in the start of a resupply and refueling…
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Soyuz rocket positioned on launch pad for station resupply flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Soyuz launch was aborted in the final seconds of the countdown Sunday. A Russian Soyuz booster and an automated Progress resupply ship reached their launch pad Friday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, two days before firing into orbit test out a new expedited rendezvous sequence that will culminate in the Progress…
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Cosmonauts upgrade station high-gain antenna on record-breaking spacewalk
File photo of a Russian cosmonaut on a spacewalk. Credit: NASA Russian cosmonauts Alexander Misurkin and Anton Shkaplerov floated outside the International Space Station on Friday and installed an upgraded electronics box on a high-gain communications antenna at the aft end of the Zvezda service module. The spacewalking duo opened the hatch to the Russian…
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Software patch fixes station robot arm; Monday spacewalk repair called off
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of an astronaut attached to the space station robot arm grapple fixture from a spacewalk in 2002. Image: NASA. A corrective software patch uplinked to the International Space Station has fixed a problem with a newly installed grapple fixture on one end of the…