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Long-awaited station spacewalk on tap Friday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Kate Rubins and space station commander Jeff Williams check out the spacesuits they will wear Friday. Credit: NASA Astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins plan to venture outside the lab complex Friday for a long-awaited spacewalk to attach a new docking mechanism, the first of two that…
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Station cargo ship delays clear way for needed spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of an Orbital ATK Cygnus supply ship. Credit: NASA The Japanese space agency has delayed the planned Sept. 30 launch of an HTV space station cargo ship to repair a leak in the vehicle, clearing the way for Orbital ATK to slip the launch of its…
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Dragon cargo craft reaches port at International Space Station
A Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 5,000 pounds of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday. Credit: NASA/Jeff Williams A commercial resupply freighter owned and operated by SpaceX wrapped up a two-day trip to the International Space Station on Wednesday, delivering a new docking port and two tons of other equipment to research…
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SpaceX sends supplies to space station, lands another Falcon rocket
In this long exposure photo, the Falcon 9 rocket streaks away from the Complex 40 launch pad at left, then its first stage booster returns to landing at right a few miles away. Credit: SpaceX Rising into a midnight sky lit by the full moon, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral…
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Live coverage: Commercial cargo craft completes space station rendezvous
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s ninth operational Dragon resupply flight 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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Timeline for SpaceX’s ninth station resupply launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Monday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0445:29 GMT (12:45:29 a.m. EDT) Monday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It will be…