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Russia launches astronauts to space station
A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station. Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford blasted off in a Soyuz TMA-06M space craft on schedule at 1051 GMT from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an…
NASA: SpaceX supply capsule successfully reached space station
A capsule on a first privately-run resupply mission successfully linked up Wednesday with the International Space Station, the US space agency NASA said. A robot arm operated by two of the six astronauts aboard the space station snatched the Dragon capsule at 1056 GMT, more than thirty minutes ahead of…
American woman takes command of space station
A woman took command of the International Space Station for just the second time Monday, after three US and Russian colleagues left the orbiting space lab and landed safely in the Kazakh steppe. The Soyuz TMA-04M capsule touched down with US astronaut Joe Acaba and the Russians Gennady Padalka and…
China achieves nation’s first manual space docking
A Chinese spacecraft on Sunday successfully completed the country’s first manual docking in orbit, a milestone in an ambitious programme to build a space station by the end of the decade. The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft linked with the Tiangong-1 module just over a week into a manned space mission which includes…
China gets closer to first space station with first automatic manned space dock
China completed its first automatic space docking on a manned mission Monday, before the three astronauts on board enter an orbiting module — a key step towards the nation’s first space station. The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft, which took off Saturday carrying the nation’s first female astronaut, came together with the Tiangong-1…
SpaceX makes final approach to space station
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on Friday made its final approach toward the International Space Station, edging closer to the climax of its landmark mission to latch on to the orbiting research lab. By 6:30 am (1030 GMT), the unmanned Dragon was 240 meters (yards) from the $100 billion dollar space outpost…
China may send its first woman into space: Xinhua
China may send its first woman into space this year after including female astronauts in the team training for its first manned spacedocking, state media said Monday. Three astronauts will blast off on board Shenzhou (“Divine Vessel”) IX between June and August to conduct a manual docking with the Tiangong-1 module currently…
China to launch manned spacecraft this summer
China will launch a manned spacecraft between June and August on a mission to take three astronauts to the Tiangong-1 module currently orbiting the Earth, state media reported Friday. The trio will blast off on board the Shenzhou (“Divine Vessel”) IX which will manually dock with the module, Xinhua news…
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