Tag: Expedition 57
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Crew of three safely lands in Kazakhstan after 197-day space mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst exits the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft shortly after landing Thursday. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a German flight engineer and a NASA astronaut undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth overnight Wednesday, landing on the snowy steppe of…
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Station crew set for overnight landing in Kazakhstan
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 commander Alexander Gerst, and Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev are set for landing in Kazakhstan Thursday. Credit: Roscosmos Eight days after a dramatic spacewalk to inspect the site of a leak in the hull of his Soyuz ferry ship, Russian commander Sergey Prokopyev,…
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Photos: Russian spacewalkers perform ‘surgery’ on Soyuz spacecraft
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (red stripes) and Sergey Prokopyev (blue stripes) inspect the site of a repaired air leak on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft on a Dec. 11 spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/ESA/Alexander Gerst Armed with a knife, scissors and other cutting tools, cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev went outside the…
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Russian spacewalkers cut into Soyuz spaceship to inspect leak repair
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) after end of spacewalk. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko cuts through thermal insulation and debris shields to reach the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft’s hull during Tuesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Clad in pressurized spacesuits, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev used knives and scissors Tuesday to slice through…
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SpaceX makes another space station cargo delivery
SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship approaches the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/NASA A commercial supply ship owned and operated by SpaceX arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, delivering a pair of NASA experiments to demonstrate satellite refueling techniques and monitor changes in Earth’s forests, along with a special holiday menu of…
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Video: Soyuz lifts off with new space station crew
Video credit: NASA TV A Russian Soyuz booster climbed into orbit Monday with a U.S. Army colonel, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and a Canadian flight engineer, kicking off a six-hour chase of the International Space Station. The three-stage rocket lifted off from historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1131…
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Watch multi-angle replays of the Soyuz MS-11 launch
These video replays show the liftoff of the Soyuz rocket carrying Oleg Kononenko, David Saint-Jacques and Anne McClain away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station around six hours later. The three-stage rocket lifted off from historic Launch Pad No. 1 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at…
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Soyuz crew enjoys problem-free launch, docks with space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft docked with the space station’s Poisk module at 12:33 p.m. EST (1733 GMT), delivering three new crew members to the orbiting research complex. Credit: NASA TV A Soyuz FG rocket thundered to life and shot into orbit smoothly Monday carrying three crew members on a…
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Live coverage: Russia launches first crewed mission since Soyuz failure
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Soyuz crew rocket arrives on the pad for first time since dramatic launch abort
Keeping up a tradition dating back to the dawn of the Space Age, a Russian Soyuz rocket emerged from a hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before sunrise Saturday for rollout to Launch Pad No. 1 at the Central Asia space base, moving into position for liftoff Monday with a U.S.-Russian-Canadian crew heading for…