File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket’s upper stage firing into orbit Feb. 2 with a batch of Starlink internet satellites. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has postponed the launch of another batch of Starlink internet satellites from Thursday as the company’s team in Florida prioritizes preparations for the launch of a four-man next week bound for …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg, and commander Stephen Bowen after their arrival at Kennedy Space Center Tuesday for launch preparations. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and an Emirati flew to the Kennedy Space Center Tuesday to begin …
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, perched atop a Soyuz rocket, rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Tuesday, Feb. 21. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s space agency said Tuesday that preliminary data suggest a coolant leak on a Progress cargo freighter docked at the International Space Station earlier this month was caused by “external influences” — …
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Russian cosmonauts will try to take pictures of the location where coolant leaked out of a Russian Progress cargo ship earlier this month when the supply freighter departs the International Space Station Friday night, as scheduled, to head for a destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean. The Progress MS-21 cargo ship is scheduled to undock …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION These images come from an inspection of the source of the coolant leak on Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 crew ferry spacecraft using the space station’s Canadian robotic arm. Credit: Roscosmos Launch of a Russian Soyuz crew capsule to replace a damaged ferry ship docked at the International Space Station …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Progress MS-21 spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Oct. 28. Credit: NASA A Russian Progress supply ship successfully docked with the International Space Station early Saturday but in an unlikely, presumed coincidence, another Progress, docked at a different port, suffered a sudden loss of coolant …
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A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifts off Thursday with the Russian Progress MS-22 supply ship. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, boosting a Progress resupply ship into orbit in pursuit of the International Space Station with more than 5,500 pounds of cargo, fuel, water, and air. The Soyuz-2.1a …
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Astronaut Koichi Wakata, in foreground at right, works on the space station’s truss during a spacewalk Thursday. Astronaut Nicole Mann is visible in the background at left. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Continuing work left over from a spacewalk last month, astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata headed outside the International Space Station Thursday …
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Astronauts Koichi Wakata (left) and Nicole Mann (right) outside the International Space Station on Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Nicole Mann suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to prepare the lab for arrival of another pair of new solar arrays later this …
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Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft undergoing launch preparations last year at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Energia Russian space agency and NASA officials said Wednesday they will accelerate the launch of the next Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, and fly it to the complex next month without anyone on-board to replace a Soyuz …
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