Tag: Expedition 61

  • Photos: Antares rocket lifts offs on space station cargo mission

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    A two-stage Northrop Grumman Antares booster lifted off Nov. 2 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia’s Eastern Shore with a Cygnus cargo freighter on the way to the International Space Station. These photos show the 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) rocket climbing into the sky from pad 0A at the spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The Antares…

  • Space station receives spacewalking gear, new baking oven

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    Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus supply ship was captured by the space station’s robotic arm at 4:10 a.m. EST (0910 GMT) Monday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now NASA astronaut Jessica Meir took control of the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robot arm Monday to capture a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship carrying crew provisions, spacewalking gear to repair an…

  • Space station resupply mission successfully launches from Virginia

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    A 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket lifts off from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, carrying a Cygnus supply ship to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, upgraded to carry heavier payloads into orbit, lifted off Saturday from a launch pad on Virginia’s Eastern Shore…

  • Live coverage: Cygnus spacecraft arrives at space station

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Antares rocket from Virginia with Northrop Grumman’s 12th operational Cygnus resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”Wallops Clean Feed”] [tabbyending]

  • Antares launch timeline on the NG-12 mission

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    The Antares launch timeline for the NG-12 mission. Credit: Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket will deliver a Cygnus supply ship into orbit Saturday to begin a two-day pursuit of the International Space Station. The rocket’s two RD-181 engines will ignite around 3.7 seconds before liftoff from pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a…

  • Japanese cargo freighter departs space station

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 1:40 p.m. EDT (1740 GMT) after HTV release. Japan’s eighth HTV cargo freighter was released from the space station’s robotic arm at 1:21 p.m. EDT (1721 GMT) Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Japanese HTV cargo freighter departed the International Space Station Friday and headed for a destructive re-entry, disposing of trash…

  • Koch, Meir conclude first all-female spacewalk

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Jessica Meir during Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir carried out history’s first all-female spacewalk Friday, floating outside the International Space Station and successfully installing a 230-pound replacement battery…

  • All-female spacewalk on tap this week

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) after NASA media teleconference. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Christina Koch inside a spacesuit before a spacewalk earlier this month. Credit: NASA Two NASA astronauts will take part in the first all-female spacewalk this week, a critical outing to restore lost power in…

  • Morgan, Koch continue battery replacement work on spacewalk

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) after conclusion of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA Astronauts Drew Morgan and Christina Koch floated back outside the International Space Station Friday and completed work to replace six aging batteries with three more powerful units in one of the lab’s eight solar…

  • Astronauts complete extra work on first in series of battery upgrade spacewalks

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    Credit: A view of the P6 truss on the International Space Station, with the HTV battery pallet on the end of the robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Christina Koch and Andrew Morgan floated outside the International Space Station Sunday and completed a 7-hour, 1-minute spacewalk to begin replacing batteries on the far left…