Tag: International Space Station

  • Soyuz rocket rolled out for critical ISS cargo launch

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      An eight-ton Russian Progress supply ship packed with nearly three tons of food, water and fuel for the International Space Station is ready for liftoff Friday on a vital mission to resume cargo deliveries to the outpost after back-to-back logistics flights fell short. The Progress M-28M cargo freighter is crammed with propellant to refuel…

  • Padalka breaks spaceflight endurance record

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    Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka waves to family and friends before launching to the International Space Station on March 27. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Veteran Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, more than three months into his fifth trip into orbit, has passed countryman Sergey Krikalev’s mark of 803 days of cumulative time in space. That is equivalent to…

  • 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…

  • Falcon 9 rocket destroyed in launch mishap

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station — including a critical docking adapter needed by future U.S. crew ships — broke apart in a shower of debris shortly after…

  • Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule’s Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check. The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its…

  • Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September

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    Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov will fly to the International Space Station in September. Credit: Kazcosmos Russia’s space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May. Aidyn Aimbetov, a 42-year-old fighter pilot turned cosmonaut,…

  • Astronaut Scott Kelly looks down on aurora lights

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    A spectacular aurora is visible from the International Space Station in this scene captured by astronaut Scott Kelly. The space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm is visible in the foreground. Credit: NASA From a perch more than 250 miles up, astronaut Scott Kelly got a bird’s-eye view of this week’s spectacular auroral display that enraptured skywatchers…

  • Photos: Space crew welcomed home after 199-day mission

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    Three space station residents crammed inside a capsule smaller than a compact car landed on the austere plans of Kazakhstan on Thursday, returning to Earth for their first taste of gravity and whiff of nature in nearly seven months. Commanded by veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, who was flanked by European Space Agency flight engineer Samantha…

  • U.S.-Russian-Italian crew returns to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-15M landing capsule’s braking rockets fire moments before touchdown at 9:44 a.m. EDT (1344 GMT) in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA astronaut and an Italian wrapping up her first space flight boarded a Russian Soyuz ferry craft early Thursday, undocked from the…

  • Three station fliers set for return to Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and Italian flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti donned their Sokol spacesuits last month for a landing rehearsal exercise. Credit: NASA Three space station crew members packed up for a fiery return to Earth Thursday, wrapping up a nearly 200-day mission…