It was a warm summertime evening in the Kazakh steppe on Friday when a Soyuz Capsule carrying two ISS crew members from France and Russia parachuted to a safe landing one hour before sunset, closing out a half-year space mission that circled the Earth 3,136 times and covered over 130 million Kilometers.
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A two-man crew is gearing up for their return to Earth after spending 197 days in space, making over 3,000 orbits around the planet. Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet are set for an early evening landing in south-central Kazakhstan on Friday
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The International Space Station completed a scheduled reboost maneuver on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 to adjust its orbit to set up the proper ground track for the landing of Soyuz MS-03 with a French-Russian crew duo on June 2.
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft, carrying a reduced crew of two, chased down the International Space Station for a speedy rendezvous on Thursday, bringing its veteran commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA Astronaut Jack Fischer to their orbital destination just six hours after blasting off from Kazakhstan.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket successfully lifted a two-man crew from Russia and the U.S. into orbit and on the fast lane to the International Space Station on Thursday, blasting off from the world’s oldest spaceport in Kazakhstan.
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Two crewmen from the U.S. and Russia are on the eve of their liftoff on a 136-day mission off the planet, supporting world-class science aboard the International Space Station.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket emerged from its assembly facility on Monday and rolled to the historic Site 1/5 launch complex at the Baikonur Cosmodrome from where it will blast off later this week with a two-man crew headed to the International Space Station.
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Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer complete final training exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, going through simulations aboard the Soyuz simulator in nominal and contingency scenarios as well as Russian Segment contingency procedures.
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The International Space Station Expedition 51/52 crew completes flight-specific training operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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The ISS Expedition 51/52 crew of Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer and their backups, Sergei Ryazansky & Randy Bresnik, participate in traditional pre-flight ceremonies in Moscow before departing for the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The International Space Station Expedition 51/52 crew members, veteran Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA’s Jack Fischer along with their backups, participate in the traditional visit to Moscow’s Red Square before departing for the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The International Space Station Expedition 51/52 crew members, veteran Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA’s Jack Fischer along with their backups, complete training operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow to prepare for a five-month mission to the orbiting outpost.
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The International Space Station Expedition 51/52 crew members, veteran Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA’s Jack Fischer along with their backups, discuss their upcoming five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory.
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