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Expedition 55 Spacewalkers Tend to Station Cooling System on 50th Quest-Based EVA
Expedition 55 spacewalkers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold have completed a six-hour and 31-minute session of Extravehicular Activity (EVA), outside the International Space Station (ISS), during which they removed a 235-pound (107 kg) Pump Flow Control Subassembly (PFCS) from a spare parts platform to the Dextre “hand” of the 57.7-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadarm2 robotic arm. It will […] More
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Soyuz MS-08 Crew Begins Two-Day Flight to Space Station; EVA Scheduled for Month’s End
Three new crew members, boasting a combined total of seven months of spaceflight experience and nearly three full days of spacewalking time between them, have begun a half-year voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). Veteran Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, joined by educator astronaut Ricky Arnold and seasoned Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repairman Drew Feustel […] More
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Spacewalkers Vande Hei and Tingle Service Space Station Robotic Arm
A pair of fiftysomething fathers labored for seven hours and 24 minutes earlier today (Tuesday, 23 January) on an ambitious spacewalk to replace the second of two degraded Latching End Effectors (LEE-B) on the 57.7-foot-long (17.6-meter) Canadarm2 robotic arm aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Six weeks after the most recent Army-Navy Game ended in the Black Knights’ […] More
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Soyuz MS-07 Crew Launches, Bound for Six-Month Space Station Increment
Three spacefarers from three nations have launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a two-day chasedown of the International Space Station (ISS) and four months of residency aboard the orbital outpost. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov—embarking on his third long-duration voyage to the station—is joined by “rookies” Scott Tingle of NASA and Norishige Kanai […] More
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Three Spacefarers from Three Nations Prepare for Four-Month Mission to Space Station
Three spacefarers from the United States, Russia and Japan gathered at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, yesterday (Wednesday, 11 October), to discuss their upcoming voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). First-time NASA astronaut Scott Tingle was joined by fellow “rookie” Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and veteran […] More
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Expedition 53 Ready to Expand to Six-Man Strength With Soyuz MS-06 Launch
Three new crew members are en-route to the International Space Station (ISS), following an on-time launch of Soyuz MS-06 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff of Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin and his U.S. crewmates Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba occurred at 3:17 a.m. local time Wednesday (5:17 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and at the […] More
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Soyuz MS-06 Crew Discusses Changes to Forthcoming Space Station Expedition
A trio of space explorers, who six months ago could not have imagined they would ever be flying together, gathered yesterday (Wednesday, 10 May) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, to discuss their forthcoming voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). Seasoned Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin and a pair of NASA astronauts—first-time […] More
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in NASA, AmericaSpace, ISS, Mars, Space, COTS, International Space Station, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz TMA-M, Exploration, Missions, low earth orbit, CYGNUS, TMA-15M, ORB-4, CRS-6, TMA-16M, CRS-7, TMA-17M, TMA-19M, TMA-20MKelly and Kornienko’s Year-Long Mission Paves Way for Journey to Mars
For the first time in almost five years—and the most recent flight of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke—a U.S. citizen sits within the Top 20 most experienced spacefarers in the world. Last night’s safe return to Earth of Scott Kelly, completing a year in space, has comfortably positioned him in 17th place, with a cumulative total […] More
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in NASA, AmericaSpace, Spaceflight, ISS, Space, SpaceX, COTS, Soyuz, International Space Station, Space Exploration, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz Descent Module, Soyuz TMA-M, Missions, space stations, Spacesuit, CYGNUS, ORB-4, Spacewalk EVA, Orbital ATK, TMA-16M, CRS-7, TMA-17M, TMA-19MOne-Year Crew Prepares to Depart Space Station for Return to Earth
Scott Kelly has certainly been waxing lyrical recently, as he wraps up the last couple of percent of his (almost) year-long increment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Last week, as he passed Day 330, he stopped counting “up” and began counting “down”, as he entered the final ten days of his historic mission. This […] More
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in AmericaSpace, ISS, Space, International Space Station, Ben Evans, astronaut, Soyuz TMA-M, Launch, Exploration, Missions, low earth orbit, TMA-16MInto the Homestretch: Kelly and Kornienko to Pass 300 Days in Space, Heading for 2 March Return to Earth
At 2:43 p.m. EST today (Thursday, 21 January), NASA astronaut Scott Kelly—incumbent skipper of the International Space Station (ISS), as Commander of Expedition 46—and his Russian crewmate Mikhail Kornienko will pass 300 days in orbit, as they press toward a total mission duration of almost a full year away from the Home Planet. Launched aboard […] More
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After 28 Weeks in Orbit, Multi-National Soyuz TMA-15M Crew Returns Safely to Earth
After 199 days in space, Soyuz TMA-15M has safely returned to Earth, bringing Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Terry Virts and Italy’s first woman in space, Samantha Cristoforetti, back to a touchdown near the industrial city of Jezkazgan, in north-central Kazakhstan, at 7:44 p.m. local time (9:44 a.m. EDT) Thursday, 11 June. Their parachute-assisted […] More
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Second-Longest Space Station Expedition to End Thursday
After more than 28 weeks aloft, the “core” of Expedition 43—the 43rd crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since November 2000—will return to Earth on Thursday, 11 June, wrapping up the second-longest single voyage ever undertaken on the multi-national outpost. Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Terry Virts, and Italy’s first […] More
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