SpaceX launches latest space station crew to orbit for NASA
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched a four-man crew to orbit en route to the International Space Station early on Thursday, with a Russian cosmonaut and United Arab Emirates astronaut joining two NASA crewmates for the flight. The SpaceX launch vehicle, consisting of a Falcon 9 rocket topped with an autonomously […]
Russian Soyuz spacecraft docks at ISS to bring back stranded crew
Reuters A Russian spacecraft on a mission to bring back to Earth a crew stranded on the International Space Station has docked at the station, Russian space agency Roscosmos said early on Sunday. The Soyuz MS-23, which lifted off from Baikonour space centre in Kazakhstan on Friday, is to bring back Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev […]
Russia to rescue ISS crew on backup rocket after capsule leak
Reuters Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a US astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month. The leak came from a tiny puncture – less than one millimetre wide – […]
Micrometeoroid strike could be cause of Russian spacecraft leak – official
Reuters A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike, a senior Russian space official said Thursday. NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, said no astronauts were endangered by the leak, which […]
SpaceX capsule splashes down, returning four astronauts from Space Station
Los Angeles, USReuters The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Freedom, carrying three US NASA astronauts and an Italian […]
Russia calls ageing space station “dangerous” as it plans successor
Reuters The International Space Station is dangerous and unfit for purpose, Russia’s space chief said on Thursday, as Moscow pushes ahead with plans to quit the project and launch its own station. Yuri Borisov, head of the Roscosmos agency, said mass equipment failures and ageing parts were endangering crew safety on the 24-year-old station. The […]
Space politics: NASA game planned contingencies for space station as Russian alliance continued-sources
JOEY ROULETTE, of Reuters, reports on how contingency plans have been drawn up amid escalating tensions between the US and Russia…
Russia tells NASA space station pullout less imminent than indicated earlier
Washington DC, USReuters Russian space officials have informed their US counterparts that Moscow would like to keep flying its cosmonauts on the International Space Station at least until their own orbital outpost is built, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday. Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA […]
Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it’s not official yet
Washington DC, USReuters Russia’s new space chief announced on Tuesday his country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but senior NASA officials said Moscow has not formally conveyed an intent to end its two-decade-old orbital partnership with the United States. While heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of […]
NASA, Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights – Roscosmos
Reuters NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos have signed a long-sought agreement to integrate flights to the International Space Station, allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly on US-made spacecraft in exchange for American astronauts being able to ride on Russia’s Soyuz, the agencies said Friday. “The agreement is in the interests of Russia and the United […]