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Japanese billionaire ready for launch to International Space Station

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Japanese spaceflight participant Yozo Hirano, Russan cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, and Japanese space tourist Yusaku Maezawa pose for a crew portrait at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian Soyuz rocket is set for blastoff Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire businessman, his cameraman and …

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Spacewalkers replace faulty antenna outside space station

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, wearing a spacesuit and mounted on the end of the space station’s robotic arm, works with a replacement S-band antenna on the lab’s port-side truss Thursday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now …

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NASA calls off spacewalk due to possible risk of space debris

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two spacesuits inside the Quest airlock on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA A planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station by astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron was called off early Tuesday after NASA received an overnight warning about possibly threatening space debris. The station’s seven-member crew …

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Russian node module docks with International Space Station

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Russia’s Prichal node module moments before docking at the International Space Station. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s Prichal docking module linked up with the International Space Station Friday, adding the final planned piece of the Russian segment of the outpost to provide a new connection for future crew and cargo ships. The spherical, ball-shaped docking node launched …

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Cygnus cargo freighter ends mission at International Space Station

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In this view from a camera on the space station’s robotic arm, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo ship departs after a three-month stay at the complex. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now A Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship departed the International Space Station Saturday after a three-month stay, heading off on the final phase of its …

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Station resumes normal operations, but risk from Russian ASAT test continues

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Expedition 66 crew members, from left to right: Pyotr Dubrov, Tom Marshburn, Anton Shkaplerov, Raja Chari, Mark Vande Hei, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer. Credit: NASA The seven-person crew living on the International Space Station resumed normal operations Wednesday, two days after closing off parts of the complex as precaution following a widely-condemned Russian anti-satellite …

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U.S. officials: Space station at risk from ‘reckless’ Russian anti-satellite test

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A view of the International Space Station captured Sept. 28 by a cosmonaut on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. Credit: Roscosmos Russia shot down an old Soviet-era military spacecraft Monday in a test of an anti-satellite weapon, scattering hundreds of thousands of debris fragments that will remain in orbit for years or decades, U.S. government officials …

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SpaceX crew capsule docks at International Space Station

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The newly-arrived Crew-3 astronauts, in blue suits, joined three other crew members at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The day after a sky-lighting Florida launch, four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule chased down the International Space Station Thursday and glided in for a …

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SpaceX crew capsule brings astronauts home after nearly 200 days in orbit

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European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, pilot Megan McArthur, commander Shane Kimbrough, and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide inside their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after splashdown Monday night in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Two NASA astronauts and mission specialists from Japan and France closed out a 199-day space flight Monday on a SpaceX …

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Dragon to perform first 360-degree flyaround of space station since shuttle

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft glides toward docking at the International Space Station on April 24. Credit: NASA Four astronauts closing out an expedition of nearly 200 days in orbit floated into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule at the International Space Station Monday, a couple of hours before the ship was scheduled to undock and …

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