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Cygnus Raised for Pre-Dawn OA-9 Launch to Space Station Monday from Virginia
UPDATE May 19 @ 10:00am EDT – Story updated with photos of Antares being raised vertical atop the launch pad in preparation for a launch attempt at 4:39 a.m. EDT Monday morning (8:39am UTC). UPDATE May 18 @ 12:30pm EDT – Launch has been delayed to NET Monday, May 21st at 4:39 a.m. EDT, “to support further pre-launch inspections and more […] More
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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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Former Bomber Commander, Second European ISS Skipper and Cuban-American Flight Surgeon Prepare for June Launch to Space Station
Three spacefarers from three nations, including a former Russian Air Force strategic bomber pilot, the second European commander of the International Space Station (ISS) and a Cuban-American flight surgeon recently moved from the backup to the prime crew, assembled at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, earlier today (Wednesday, 14 February), to discuss […] More
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Expedition 55 Crew Primed for March 2018 Launch to Space Station
Three experienced spacefarers, including an ex-teacher, a former soldier in the Soviet Army and a veteran “Hubble Hugger”, gathered before the media at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, on Thursday, 7 December, to discuss their upcoming voyage to the International Space Station (ISS). Two-time shuttle astronaut Drew Feustel, seasoned spacewalker Ricky Arnold […] 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 41 Ends, Soyuz TMA-13M Crew to Return to Earth Tonight
Expedition 42 is formally underway aboard the International Space Station (ISS), following the traditional change-of-command ceremony Saturday, 8 November, between outgoing skipper Max Surayev of Russia and his NASA replacement, Barry “Butch” Wilmore. Surayev and his crewmates Reid Wiseman of NASA and Germany’s Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) will board their […] More
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Soyuz TMA-12M Lands Safely, Concluding 169-Day Mission
After 169 days in space, more than 2,700 orbits of Earth and 71.7 million miles (115.4 million km) traveled, the Soyuz TMA-12M crew of U.S. astronaut Steve Swanson and Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev have returned safely to Earth, touching down to the southeast of the remote Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan. Initial examinations […] More
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Swanson to Hand ISS Command to Surayev, Ahead of Wednesday Return to Earth
More than five months since their feet last touched terra firma, the Soyuz TMA-12M crew of U.S. astronaut Steve Swanson and Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev are primed to depart the International Space Station (ISS) late Wednesday, 10 September, and return to Earth. Current plans envisage the three men undocking from the station’s […] More
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Hot Summer of Resupply Concludes and Continues Aboard Space Station
A hot and feverish summer of International Space Station (ISS) resupply operations is in high gear, following the successful deorbiting of Orbital Sciences Corp.’s second dedicated Cygnus cargo ship (ORB-2) on Sunday, 17 August, and preparations to resume unloading the European Space Agency’s (ESA) recently arrived fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) on Tuesday, 19 August. […] More
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Progress M-24M Delivers 2014’s Third Batch of Russian Supplies to Space Station
Less than six hours after departing Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia’s Progress M-24M cargo craft successfully docked automatically at the Earth-facing (or “nadir”) port of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Pirs module at 11:31 p.m. EDT Wednesday. The spacecraft brought approximately 5,500 pounds (2,500 kg) of equipment, supplies, and experiments to the station’s incumbent Expedition […] More
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‘Super-Fast’ Progress M-24M Ready for Wednesday Launch to Space Station
After three months docked at the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s Progress M-23M cargo craft—otherwise known as “Progress 55P” in ISS Program-speak—successfully separated from the orbital outpost at 5:44 p.m. EDT yesterday (Monday), bound for several days of “Radar Progress” experiments and ultimately a fiery destruction in Earth’s upper atmosphere on 1 August. In the […] More
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