Tag: International Space Station

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    Spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins are dwarfed by the International Space Station’s truss backbone during Thursday’s EVA. Credit: NASA TV Space station commander Jeff Williams and flight engineer Kate Rubins completed a smooth 6-hour 48-minute spacewalk Thursday, retracting a spare cooling radiator, installing two high-definition TV cameras and inspecting a massive solar array rotation…

  • Spacewalkers take on fix-up chores in orbit

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    Spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins make their way around the International Space Station as solar panels shimmer in the sunlight. (Credit: NASA TV) NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins ventured outside the International Space Station today for the second time in two weeks and worked their way down a long to-do list. The…

  • Astronauts set for second spacewalk in two weeks

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    Space station commander Jeff Williams and astronaut Kate Rubins plan to carry out their second spacewalk in two weeks Thursday, venturing back outside to retract a cooling radiator, install a high-definition TV camera, replace a burned-out light and inspect struts attached to a large solar array rotary mechanism. If time is available, they also may…

  • DNA sequenced in space for the first time

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    NASA astronaut Kate Rubins sequenced DNA using the MiniON device at lower right. (Credit: NASA) NASA biologist-astronaut Kate Rubins performed the first DNA sequencing experiment in space over the weekend, using a miniaturized device that was delivered to the International Space Station just last month. The palm-sized MiniON DNA sequencer, built by Oxford Nanopore Technologies, could eventually…

  • Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

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    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. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Dragon spacecraft splashes down with station research specimens

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    SpaceX released this view of the Dragon spacecraft descending to the Pacific Ocean on Friday. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX-owned Dragon cargo craft left the International Space Station on Friday and flew back to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with a dozen mice and more than 3,000 pounds of experiment specimens and…

  • SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down, bringing mice and more from space station

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    SpaceX’s Dragon pulls away from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA TV) SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today, carrying more than 3,000 pounds of cargo and science samples back down to Earth from the International Space Station. NASA’s Kate Rubins and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi worked with the station’s robotic…

  • NASA astronaut Jeff Williams sets new U.S. space endurance record

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA International Space Station commander Jeff Williams set a new U.S. space endurance record Wednesday, his 521st day in orbit over four missions, eclipsing the 520-day record set earlier this year by astronaut Scott Kelly at the end of his nearly one-year stay aboard the lab complex.…

  • Astronaut Jeff Williams breaks NASA’s record for cumulative time in space

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    NASA astronaut Jeff Williams shows off mission patches from his spaceflights. (Credit: NASA) Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly may hold the U.S. record for most consecutive days in space, but he’s been surpassed by Jeff Williams, the International Space Station’s current commander, when it comes to total days in orbit. Today Williams zoomed past Kelly’s 520-day…

  • Space station crew could be cut to five

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    Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin is seen floating through the hatch way of the Russian segment aboard the International Space Station in July. Credit: NASA Russia may start sending just two of its cosmonauts to the International Space Station at a time, according to media reports and comments by a NASA manager, in a cost-cutting measure…