Tag: Expedition 59
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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan with international crew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft fires its “soft landing rockets” at the moment of touchdown on the steppe of Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, his Canadian co-pilot and a NASA flight engineer boarded their Soyuz spacecraft, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth…
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American, Canadian, Russian space station fliers set for return to Earth
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian commander Oleg Kononenko, and Canadian flight engineer David Saint-Jacques. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos A Russian cosmonaut, his Canadian co-pilot and a NASA flight engineer packed their Soyuz spacecraft for departure from the International Space Station Monday night, targeting a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan…
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Live coverage: International Space Station crew lands in Kazakhstan
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Dragon capsule returns to Earth from space station with 2.1 tons of cargo
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft is grappled by the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm before release Monday. Credit: David Saint-Jacques/CSA/NASA Closing out a 30-day mission, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station on Monday for a fiery trip back to Earth, culminating in re-entry back into the atmosphere and a parachute-assisted splashdown…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. SpaceX and NASA will not provide live video coverage of the splashdown. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…
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Cosmonauts complete tasks outside space station, honor spacewalk pioneer
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Spacewalkers Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin work outside the Pirs docking compartment during the fourth spacewalk of the year at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Two Russian cosmonauts stepped outside the International Space Station Wednesday, sent birthday greetings to former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first man to…
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X-ray communications experiment delivered to space station
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) instrument and the U.S. military’s Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) payload, which carries the X-ray communications experiment, inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft before launch. Credit: NASA A novel communications experiment developed by NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station to prove…
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SpaceX cargo ship reaches space station
Credit: NASA TV A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship caught up with the International Space Station early Monday and then stood by while Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, operating the lab’s robot arm, locked onto the spacecraft to wrap up a two-day rendezvous. “Well done, well captured,” a flight controller radioed from the Johnson Space Center in…
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SpaceX launches space station resupply mission, lands rocket on drone ship
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 2:48:58 a.m. EDT (0648:58 GMT) Saturday. Credit: SpaceX With a thundering, sky-lighting predawn blastoff from Cape Canaveral, a Falcon 9 rocket fired into orbit early Saturday with a Dragon cargo capsule in pursuit of the International Space Station. Less than nine…
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by problem on landing ship
File photo of SpaceX’s drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” Credit: SpaceX An electrical problem on SpaceX’s drone ship parked just off the coast of Cape Canaveral prompted SpaceX to scrub a Falcon 9 launch attempt early Friday, delaying the start of a resupply mission to the International Space Station by 24 hours.…