Tag: International Space Station
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Sierra Nevada to resume Dream Chaser flight tests
Artist’s concept of a Dream Chaser spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station. Credit: Sierra Nevada An atmospheric test model of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane is being readied for tow and landing tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California this spring. The partially-assembled test craft arrived at the California test site,…
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A year after returning to Earth, astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on lessons learned from 340 days in space
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly flashes two thumbs-up signs after his return to Earth from the International Space Station on March 1, 2016. (Credit: NASA) One year after returning to Earth from his 340-day mission in orbit, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly loves the smell of grass and the feel of water and wind. He now knows…
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NASA buys up to five more seats on future Soyuz missions
A Soyuz spacecraft is pictured docked with the International Space Station in this Feb. 3 image. The Florida peninsula is seen in the background. Credit: NASA NASA has purchased two seats on Russian Soyuz capsules launching later this year and in early 2018 to expand the crew on the U.S. segment of the International Space…
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NASA goes ahead and buys Russian rides to space station through Boeing
An upgraded Soyuz spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking. (Credit: NASA TV) NASA has agreed to purchase at least two trips to and from the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, from an unlikely ticket-seller: the Boeing Co. The arrangement follows through on a convoluted plan laid out back in January, and provides…
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Watch two new arrivals at the International Space Station
The International Space Station received two cargo shipments this week from the U.S. and Russia. A SpaceX Dragon capsule berthed with the orbiting outpost on Thursday, February 23 and a Russian Progress cargo freighter docked a day later. Watch video highlights of the arrivals. Dragon arrives Progress docks
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Russian freighter links up with International Space Station
The Progress MS-05 supply ship is seen on final approach to the space station Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The International Space Station received its second cargo shipment in less than 24 hours Friday with the automated linkup of a Russian Progress refueling and resupply freighter. The Progress MS-05 spaceship closed in to dock…
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Horror movie ‘Life’ draws upon real-life biology and worst-case space scenarios
An astronaut administers a shock to an alien life form in a Petri dish aboard the International Space Station, in a scene from the movie “Life.” Bad idea? (CTMG via YouTube) A real-life organism provides the inspiration for the alien monster at the center of “Life,” a horror movie that’s set on the International Space Station.…
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Commercial space cargo ship’s ride to orbit assembled for March 19 launch
The OA-7 Cygnus launch poster. Credit: United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL — An Atlas 5 booster core and Centaur upper stage have been stacked to launch another commercial freighter with supplies and scientific research gear to the International Space Station next month. The United Launch Alliance rocket is scheduled to fly March 19 to deploy…
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Photos: Russian cargo craft fires away from snow-covered cosmodrome
Russia’s Progress MS-05 supply ship lifted off Wednesday on top of a Soyuz-U rocket, climbing into orbit from a snow-covered launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the way to the International Space Station. The robotic cargo freighter is carrying more than 2.5 tons of dry goods, propellant, water and oxygen to the…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into overcast sky from pad 39A
Check out one more gallery of photos from Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These images show the Falcon 9 rocket’s preflight preparations at pad 39A, the final loading of the Dragon supply ship with time-sensitive cargo, and the lifting of the 213-foot-tall…