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Russia set for first launch of cargo vessel to ISS since October accident
A Russian Soyuz rocket with a cargo vessel was to blast off Friday in the first launch to the International Space Station (ISS) since a manned accident last month. "The mission control center has completed the work set out for the launch of the Progress ...
The taxi service to the International Space Station has stopped until further notice. Neither the United States nor Russia will be able to send astronauts to the ISS until investigators determine why a Soyuz rocket experienced an anomaly after blastoff Thursday, forcing its passengers to ...
Cosmonaut shows space station hole to calm public as Moscow alleges sabotage
A cosmonaut on Monday showed off a hole in the International Space Station that caused loss of oxygen after Russia suggested the leak could have been caused deliberately. Cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev posted a video on social media where he shows the small sealed hole in ...
SpaceX looks poised to beat Boeing, become first to send astronauts to space, possibly next April
Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is set to beat Boeing Co. in the battle to be the first company to ferry American astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX plans to fly Demo-2, its first crewed test flight, in April 2019, while Boeing's Crew ...
Soyuz takes JAXA rookie Norishige Kanai on first ISS mission
A three-man astronaut crew featuring American and Japanese rookies and an experienced Russian cosmonaut blasted off Sunday for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Scott Tingle of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) powered ...
A Japanese astronaut and two other members of the International Space Station returned to Earth on Sunday after completing a nearly four-month mission, the Japanese and U.S. space agencies said. Russian mission commander Anatoly Ivanishin and flight engineers Takuya Onishi, from Japan, and Kate Rubins, ...
Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut docks safely with space station
The Russian spacecraft with three astronauts on board took 50 hours to reach the ISS on Saturday after its lift off from Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Japanese astronaut's Soyuz trip to ISS delayed till July 7 due to control system glitch
The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and two colleagues is set for July 7, about two weeks later than originally scheduled, Russia's space agency said Monday. The rescheduling came after the country's media reported recently that the launch is ...
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday morning nearly six hours after liftoff from Kazakhstan. Their rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:02 a.m. Japan time and separated from the ...
Astronaut Yui confident about space flight despite Soyuz delays
Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui said Tuesday that he is confident and feels safe about the approaching trip that will take him and two other colleagues to the International Space Station, despite a nearly two-month delay stemming from the failed launch of another spacecraft using ...
Speeding Russian space junk forces ISS trio to 'shelter in place' in Soyuz escape capsule
A piece of space junk forced the three space station astronauts to seek emergency shelter Thursday. For nearly an hour, the American and two Russians hunkered down in their Soyuz capsule, which is docked to the International Space Station, in case they had to make ...
Astronaut Yui to blast off for ISS on July 23: Russian Space Agency
The Russian Space Agency announced Thursday that a Soyuz spacecraft will take Japan's Kimiya Yui and other astronauts to the International Space Station on July 23, TASS news service reported. The announcement came on the same day that three astronauts returned from the ISS. Yui ...
