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    Astronauts Release U.S. Spacecraft Completing Cargo Mission

    Cygnus Released

    Expedition 56 Flight Engineers Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) and Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA commanded the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the Cygnus cargo spacecraft at 8:37 a.m. EDT. At the time of release, the station was flying 253 miles above the Southeastern border of Colombia. Earlier, ground controllers used …

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    Cancer, Fertility Research and Cargo Work Fill Crew Schedule

    NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold

    The Expedition 56 crew members explored a variety of microgravity science today potentially improving the lives of people on Earth and astronauts in space. The orbital residents are also unpacking a new resupply ship and getting ready for the departure of another. Cancer research is taking place aboard the International Space Station possibly leading to …

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    Crew Unpacking New Cargo, Researching Life Science Before Sunday Ship Departure

    Expedition 56-57 crewmates

    Expedition 56 crew members are transferring cargo in and out of U.S. and Russian cargo ships today. Two astronauts are also planning to release a U.S. resupply ship on Sunday ending its mission at the International Space Station. Astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Alexander Gerst were back inside the SpaceX Dragon today unloading science gear and …

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    Cargo Ships and Cancer Research Keeps Orbital Lab Humming

    The Northrop Grumman (formerly Orbital ATK) Cygnus resupply ship

    Russia’s Progress 70 (70P) cargo craft delivered nearly 5,700 pounds of crew supplies and station cargo to the International Space Station on Monday less than four hours after launch. Meanwhile, the U.S. Cygnus resupply ship from Northrop Grumman tested its ability to boost the orbital laboratory’s altitude today. Monday’s arrival of the Russian resupply craft …

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    Cargo Craft Docks to Station After Short Trip

    Cargo Craft Final Approach

    Traveling about 250 miles over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, the unpiloted Russian Progress 70 cargo ship docked at 9:31 p.m. EDT to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station. For more information about the current crew and the International Space Station, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station.

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    Lift Off of a Same-Day Cargo Delivery to the Space Station

    Russian Cargo Craft Liftoff

    Carrying almost three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the International Space Station crew, the unpiloted Russian Progress 70 cargo craft launched at 5:51 p.m. EDT (3:51 a.m. July 10 in Baikonur) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At the time of launch, the International Space Station was flying about 250 miles over southwest …

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    Watch Russian Rocket Blast Off for Same-Day Delivery to Station

    A Russian Progress resupply ship blasts off

    NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch of a Russian Progress spacecraft carrying almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 56 crew aboard the International Space Station beginning at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Monday, July 9. Launch of the ISS Progress 70 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is …

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    New Earth Obs Study Installed Before Monday Russian Cargo Mission

    SpaceX Dragon, a star-lit sky and Earth's atmospheric glow

    More research gear continues to be unloaded from inside and outside of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft today. Back on Earth, another resupply ship is poised to blast off Monday on a quick delivery mission to the International Space Station. Overnight, mission controllers commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to extract a new Earth-observing experiment from …

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    Expedition 56 Crew Unpacks Dragon to Begin New Science Operations

    The SpaceX Dragon captured with the Canadarm2

    The International Space Station crew from the United States, Russia and Germany is going into the Fourth of July holiday unpacking new research gear from the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft. The six Expedition 56 crew members also conducted advanced space research and orbital lab maintenance today. NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold opened the hatches to the …

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    Dragon Now Installed To Station For Month-Long Stay

    July 2, 2018: International Space Station Configuration

    Three days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 9:52 a.m. EDT. The 15th contracted commercial resupply mission from SpaceX (CRS-15) delivers more than 5,900 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the orbiting laboratory. Among the research …

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