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Soyuz MS-12 roars aloft from Gagarin’s Start, into post-midnight skies at Baikonur. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter Two U.S. astronauts rode into orbit, shoulder-to-shoulder with a Russian commander earlier today, when Soyuz MS-12 speared smoothly aloft from Site 1/5—the historic “Gagarin’s Start”—at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA flyers Nick Hague and Christina Koch were joined […] 
The Soyuz MS-12 crew of (from left) Alexei Ovchinin, Nick Hague and Christina Koch during their flight to Baikonur last month. Photo Credit: NASA Five months after an abortive attempt to reach the International Space Station (ISS), Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and NASA’s Nick Hague will have a second chance to get to […] 
Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques at work with U.S. space suits in the Quest airlock aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: NASA As the world observes International Women’s Day today (Friday, 8 March), we are reminded not only of the past accomplishments of female spacefarers—including Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in […] 
Drew Feustel will be the 22nd U.S. citizen to command the International Space Station (ISS). After the completion of his tenure, no U.S. astronaut is slated to command the station throughout 2019. Photo Credit: NASA When Expedition 56 astronaut Drew Feustel relinquishes the helm of the International Space Station (ISS) to Germany’s Alexander […] 
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 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 […] Proudly displaying its circular, fan-like UltraFlex solar arrays, the OA-4 Cygnus spacecraft is pictured shortly before being grappled by Canadarm2. Photo Credit: Scott Kelly/NASA/Twitter Less than two days before his scheduled return to Earth, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren has completed his last major activity as a member of the Expedition 45 crew aboard […] |
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