A Soyuz 2-1A rocket rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at sunrise on Tuesday, greeted by colorful skies as the stage is set for liftoff on Thursday to send the Progress MS-07 cargo ship on an ultra-fast rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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A Soyuz 2-1A rocket rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at sunrise on Tuesday, greeted by colorful skies as the stage is set for liftoff on Thursday to send the Progress MS-07 cargo ship on an ultra-fast rendezvous with the International Space Station
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International Space Station crew members Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei checked off a busy task list on Tuesday on the second of three spacewalks planned outside the orbiting laboratory this month to tackle a number of repair and outfitting tasks.
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Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei are gearing up for their second spacewalk in five days, looking to repeat the success of last Thursday’s excursion that accomplished all primary objectives plus a pair of extra tasks.
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View the recent spacewalk by ISS Expedition 53 Astronauts Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei through their perspective with these photos collected during U.S. EVA-44, performed on October 5, 2017.
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Russia plans to speed up the rendezvous of the country’s Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to bring crews and cargo to the International Space Station faster than with the current six-hour flight profile that has been in use for the last five years.
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Veteran NASA spacewalker Randy Bresnik and EVA rookie Mark Vande Hei spent nearly seven hours working outside the International Space Station on Thursday, conducting important maintenance on the Station’s robotic arm
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The crew of International Space Station Expedition 53 is gearing up for three spacewalks beginning this week to complete major maintenance on the Mobile Servicing System
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Nodes 2, a 1.5U CubeSat part of a two-satellite in-space communications demonstration project, re-entered the atmosphere on September 23, 2017 after 495 days in orbit following a May 2016 release from the International Space Station.
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Nodes 1, a 1.5U CubeSat part of a two-satellite in-space communications demonstration project, re-entered the atmosphere on September 19, 2017 after 491 in orbit following a May 2016 release from the International Space Station.
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The SpaceX Dragon is making its homecoming after almost 34 days off the planet on Sunday, capping a successful mission that facilitated the shipment of world-class science to the International Space Station
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The third stage of the Soyuz Rocket that helped boost the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft into orbit re-entered the atmosphere four days after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Carrying a crew of three, a Russian Soyuz FG rocket lit up the skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday night as it embarked on a nine-minute climb to orbit in pursuit of the International Space Station to send the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft on a fast-track rendezvous with the orbiting laboratory with the second half of the Expedition 53 crew.
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Two American Astronauts and a Russian Cosmonaut lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s historic Site 1/5 at 21:17:02 UTC on
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Two American Astronauts and a Russian Cosmonaut lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s historic Site 1/5 at 21:17:02 UTC on September 12, 2017 atop a Soyuz FG rocket.
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Two NASA Astronauts and an experienced Cosmonaut are on the eve of their launch to the International Space Station on a five-and-a-half-month mission as part of Expedition 53/54.
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Russia’s Soyuz FG rocket emerged from its MIK Assembly Facility at the traditional early morning hour on Sunday to roll to its historic Baikonur launch pad in preparation for liftoff with a crew of three.
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