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  • Second time’s the charm for Soyuz docking

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft approaches the International Space Station late Monday, seen here through a camera looking out of the aft docking port of the Zvezda service module. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Two days after a dramatic docking abort, an unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft glided in for a…

  • Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2330 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT) with docking and undocking times. Expedition 60 flight engineer Luca Parmitano trains inside the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft before launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/GCTC Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, joined by Italian flight engineer Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, plans to relocate his…

  • Soyuz docking aborted at International Space Station

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    The Russian Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft seen during approach to the space station Saturday. Credit: NASA TV Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station commanded an approaching unpiloted Soyuz spacecraft to abort its docking Saturday after the ship’s automated rendezvous system ran into trouble, leaving ground teams assessing what went wrong and whether to attempt another…

  • Russians ready unpiloted Soyuz capsule for launch

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    An unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with a humanoid robot in the commander’s seat instead of a cosmonaut, is scheduled for liftoff late Wednesday (U.S. time) from Kazakhstan on a test flight to verify the spaceship’s compatibility with the new-generation Soyuz-2.1a rocket set to begin launching crews to the International Space Station next year. Flying…

  • Live coverage: Soyuz MS-14 docks at space station

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    Live coverage of the test flight of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Robot-carrying capsule launches on test flight to space station

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    The Russian Skybot F-850 robot, seen here inside the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft after launch, will undergo experiments at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Roscosmos With a robot rather than a cosmonaut in the commander’s seat, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft rocketed into orbit from Kazakhstan late Wednesday (U.S. time) en route to the International Space…

  • Russia launches military communications satellite

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    A Soyuz-2.1a booster lifts off Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Russian military Meridian communications satellite. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian military satellite rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a Soyuz launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to provide communications coverage over Russia’s polar regions. The Meridian relay satellite lifted off at 0556 GMT (1:56…

  • Four Russian military satellites launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome

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    Four unidentified Russian military satellites rode a modified Soyuz booster into orbit Wednesday from a remote space base north of Moscow. The satellites lifted off at 1714 GMT (1:14 p.m. EDT) Wednesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military launch base around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The launch occurred at 8:14 p.m. Moscow…

  • Russia pressing forward on ISS expansion

    Russia pressing forward on ISS expansion

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    Russia is working towards the future expansion of its segment of the International Space Station. Although major additions to the United States’ segment have mostly ceased following the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011, Russian segment expansion is set to restart as early as the middle of next year. Russian segment expansion Since…

  • The moon in 2069: Top space scientists share their visions for lunar lifestyles

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    The European Space Agency’s vision for lunar settlement includes habitats shielded by piled-up moon dirt. (ESA / Foster + Partners Illustration) LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Fifty years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 11 mission transformed the idea of putting people on the moon from science fiction to historical fact. Not much has changed on the moon…