Three space travelers safely returned to Earth Saturday morning, parachuting into the steppes of Kazakhstan to mark their homecoming after half a year in orbit, circling the Earth 2,976 times.
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Three spacemen swapped the relative comforts of the International Space Station for the confined Soyuz capsule to parachute back to Earth Saturday morning, aiming for a landing in the Kazakh steppe.
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A trio of International Space Station crew members is setting sail on their return journey on Saturday, looking forward to an early afternoon landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan aboard their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft.
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The Cygnus OA-6 spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Tuesday after a stay of 80 Days, facilitating a busy cargo-delivery and trash pick-up mission.
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The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was opened for business on Monday when Astronaut Jeff Williams became the first human to enter an inflatable module in space.
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The International Space Station grew in size on Saturday when the Bigelow Expandable Module (BEAM) was successfully expanded on the second attempt after the initial deployment on Thursday did not work out as planned.
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The crew aboard the International Space Station will make another attempt to deploy BEAM, the first human-rated expandable module, on Saturday after engineering assessments following Thursday’s failed deployment of the module.
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Seventeen small satellites are being deployed from the International Space Station Monday through Wednesday after being delivered to the Station on various cargo vehicles over the past several months.
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The SpaceX Dragon made a successful return from a month-long Space Station Mission on Wednesday, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean at 18:51 UTC several hours after the spacecraft was detached from the International Space Station to begin its homebound journey.
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The SpaceX Dragon departed the International Space Station after a one-month stay on Wednesday, en-route to a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean planned later in the day to return valuable scientific research to Earth.
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Robotics operations were underway aboard the International Space Station this week to set up for the arrival of a new set of batteries later this year to replace aging batteries installed on the Station’s truss segments.
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The first microsatellite built and operated by the Philippines was released from the International Space Station on Wednesday.
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The first human-rate expandable habitation module was installed on the International Space Station on Saturday when the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) took up residence at the orbiting outpost for a two-year stay.
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The stage is set aboard the International Space Station for the robotic installation of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module on Saturday to become the first inflatable habitat to be attached to the Station.
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The International Space Station received a fresh batch of supplies on Saturday when the Progress MS-02 spacecraft made a successful docking to the Station’s aft docking port, arriving for a stay of six and a half months and bringing with it 2,425 Kilograms of fuel, water and supplies for ISS and its six resident crew members.
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Three new crew members arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday after an overnight commute to their home and workplace in space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft,
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The crew of ISS Expedition 47 completes spacewalk training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in preparation for their half-year flight to space.
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