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  • Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery

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    Photo of the second International Docking Adapter awaiting launch at the Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility. Credit: NASA/Charles Babir Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon…

  • SpaceX failure adds another kink in station supply chain

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    Updated at 3 p.m. EDT on June 29. This image of the International Space Station is from a video recorded by a Soyuz spacecraft on final approach to the complex in March. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos Managers in charge of International Space Station say the massive orbiting laboratory and its residents can keep going despite Sunday’s failure…

  • Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station. The kerosene-fueled launcher was counting down to takeoff at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT) Sunday to kick off the Dragon supply ship’s two-day…

  • NASA approves Sunday spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION   International Space Station managers Friday cleared astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts to proceed with a third spacewalk Sunday, as originally planned, after concluding a small amount of water in Virts’ space helmet after an EVA Wednesday was an understood condition and…

  • Successful spacewalk ends with water leak

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts blows on a bubble of water that seeped into his helmet after Wednesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday for the second of three spacewalks to help ready the lab…

  • Astronauts prep space station for commercial capsules

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Terry Virts (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) work outside the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts floated outside the International Space Station Saturday and installed wiring needed for two new docking mechanisms that will be…

  • Live coverage: Station astronauts wire up new antennas

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    Live coverage of the Expedition 42 crew’s spacewalks to outfit the International Space Station for a new set of docking adapters and communications equipment to welcome commercial crew spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Astronauts, spacesuits ready for spacewalk Saturday

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts will begin a series of three spacewalks Saturday. Credit: NASA NASA space station managers decided Thursday to delay the first two of three planned spacewalks by one day to give flight controllers and engineers a chance to catch their…