By Ben Evans, on October 10th, 2017
Randy Bresnik (with red stripes) and Mark Vande Hei totaled six hours and 26 minutes during Tuesday’s U.S. EVA-45. Photo Credit: NASA/Sergei Ryazansky/Twitter
The U.S. Marine Corps is celebrating a new service record today, after Expedition 53 Commander Randy “Komrade” Bresnik—a retired colonel—became the service’s most seasoned spacewalker. Having already become the first […]
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By Ben Evans, on October 5th, 2017
Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik (with red stripes on the legs of his suit) and Mark Vande Hei labor outside the International Space Station (ISS) to remove and replace Latching End Effector (LEE)-A on Canadarm2. Photo Credit: NASA/CSA/Jason Seagram/Twitter
Two astronauts representing the Marine Corps and Army branches of the U.S. Armed Forces […]
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By Ben Evans, on September 12th, 2017
Soyuz MS-06 launches from Site 1/5 at Baikonur, three weeks shy of the 60th anniversary since Sputnik 1 rose from the same complex. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter
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 […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 14th, 2017
SpaceX launched its 12th resupply mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. Credit: AmericaSpace/Alan Walters
For the ninth time this year, the roar of nine Merlin 1D+ engines pummeled Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 8th, 2017
A successful test fire of the Falcon 9 for next week’s CRS-12 launch, NET Aug 14. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace/Jeff Seibert
UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 28th, 2017
The Soyuz MS-05 rocket is launched with Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ryazanskiy, Bresnik, and Nespoli will spend the next four and a half […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 26th, 2017
When Fyodor Yurchikhin’s crew returns to Earth in September, Expedition 53 will officially begin, under the command of NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (seated right). His crew will consist of (from left) Joe Acaba, Aleksandr Misurkin, Mark Vande Hei, Sergei Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli. Photo Credit: NASA, via Mark Vande Hei/Twitter
For the first […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 11th, 2017
Soyuz MS-06 crew members (from left) Aleksandr Misurkin, Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei will spend five months in space from September 2017 through February 2018. Photo Credit: Michael Galindo/AmericaSpace
A trio of space explorers, who six months ago could not have imagined they would ever be flying together, gathered yesterday (Wednesday, 10 […]
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By Ben Evans, on April 20th, 2017
The Soyuz-FG booster delivers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer smoothly into orbit on Thursday, 20 April. Photo Credit: NASA/Twitter
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer have launched safely into orbit aboard their Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft, bound for a 4.5-month occupancy of the International Space Station (ISS). The duo—who represent the […]
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By Ben Evans, on April 18th, 2017
Veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and “rookie” spacefarer Jack Fischer will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Soyuz MS-04 on Thursday, 20 April. Photo Credit: NASA
The smallest Soyuz crew in more than a decade will rocket towards the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, 20 April, heading for a shorter-than-normal […]
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