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In the wee hours of tomorrow morning (Wednesday), Jeff Williams will become the United States’ most flight-experienced astronaut. Photo Credit: NASA At 4:56 a.m. EDT tomorrow (Wednesday, 24 August), NASA astronaut Jeff Williams—the incumbent skipper of Expedition 48, aboard the International Space Station (ISS)—will officially become the United States’ most seasoned spacefarer. He […] 
With 520 cumulative days in space, and 340 days from his (almost) one-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Scott Kelly is now the national record-holder for the longest single space mission and the greatest amount of spaceflight time of any U.S. citizen. Photo Credit: NASA For the first time in almost […] With yesterday’s change of command ceremony, Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra (left) will lead the International Space Station (ISS) through early June. He takes over from One-Year crewman Scott Kelly (right). Photo Credit: NASA/Tim Kopra/Twitter With just one day of their (almost) year-long mission remaining, U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail […] 
With Sergei Volkov (center) commanding the return to Earth, One-Year crewman Scott Kelly (left) and Mikhail Kornienko will wrap up the longest single space mission of the 21st century next week. Photo Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/Twitter Scott Kelly has certainly been waxing lyrical recently, as he wraps up the last couple of percent of […] 
At 2:43 p.m. EST on 21 January 2016, Scott Kelly becomes the first American citizen to have spent 300 days, continuously, in space on a single mission. Photo Credit: NASA, via Joachim Becker/SpaceFacts.de At 2:43 p.m. EST today (Thursday, 21 January), NASA astronaut Scott Kelly—incumbent skipper of the International Space Station (ISS), as […] 
Spectacular view of Soyuz TMA-17M’s descent into the “sensible” atmosphere, as viewed by Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/Twitter Two weeks ahead of Christmas, and 11 days sooner than originally manifested, the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft and its crew of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, U.S. […] 
After 4.5 months in orbit, U.S. astronaut Kjell Lindgren and his crewmates Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui will return to Earth tomorrow (Friday, 11 December). Photo Credit: NASA Eleven days sooner than originally planned, the Soyuz TMA-17M crew of Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, U.S. astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Japan’s Kimiya Yui are set […] The current Expedition 45 crew of the International Space Station (ISS) comprises (from left) Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko, Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui. Photo Credit: NASA With the International Space Station (ISS) now back at six-person strength, following last week’s return to Earth of Soyuz […] Expedition 44’s Scott Kelly juggles fresh fruit, delivered recently aboard the Progress M-28M resupply craft. Kelly is now almost halfway through his year-long mission. Photo Credit: NASA Tomorrow (Saturday, 5 September), the first human in history to command as many as five long-duration missions to an Earth-circling space station will hand over the […] Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the International Space Station (ISS) on 26/27 March, as viewed by Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts. After five months attached to the station, Soyuz TMA-16M and its crew of Gennadi Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, and Scott Kelly will perform a relocation flyabout tomorrow. Photo Credit: Terry Virts/NASA/Twitter After five months in […] |
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