The International Space Station welcomed a new cargo craft overnight as mission managers postponed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission for 24 hours. The Expedition 69 crew members have begun unpacking the new cargo while servicing a variety of science equipment aboard the orbital lab. Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin went to bed …
An uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 85 spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station’s aft port of the Zvezda service module at 11:45 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft launched on a Soyuz rocket at 9:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 22 (6:08 a.m. Baikonur time on Aug. 23) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Progress is delivering almost three …
NASA Television’s Media Channel on the agency’s website now is providing live coverage of the docking of an uncrewed Roscosmos cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed Progress 85 launched on a Soyuz rocket at 9:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 22 (6:08 a.m. Baikonur time on Aug. 23) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in …
The Expedition 69 crew will receive a space delivery late Thursday night and just a few hours before a new crew will launch to the International Space Station. While the orbital residents are getting ready for both missions there was still some time for gene therapy research and lab maintenance tasks. Two cosmonauts, Commander Sergey …
The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 85 spacecraft is safely in orbit headed for the International Space Station following launch at 9:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 22 (6:08 a.m. Baikonur time on Aug. 23) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The resupply ship reached preliminary orbit and deployed its solar arrays and navigational antennas as planned on …
NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the launch of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed Progress 85 is scheduled to lift off on a Soyuz rocket at 9:08 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 22 (6:08 a.m. Baikonur time on Aug. 23) from …
Two rockets on opposite sides of the world will launch to the International Space Station delivering cargo and a new crew this week. The first spaceship will launch from Kazakhstan Tuesday night hauling supplies to replenish the Expedition 69 crew. The second will launch from Florida sending four new crew members to the orbital lab. …
The Expedition 69 crew is gearing up for cargo and crew vehicles headed to the International Space Station this week. The seven orbital residents are also continuing critical space research while preparing for September’s crew departure activities. An extra port on the orbital outpost is open following the departure of the Roscosmos Progress 83 cargo …
The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 83 cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 7:50 p.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 20. Loaded with trash, Progress will be deorbited by RSC-Energia flight controllers over the Pacific Ocean after spending six months at the station. Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on …
The Expedition 69 crew began its day with health checks before moving on to biology and physics research at the end of the week. The International Space Station residents also kept up their maintenance activities while preparing for next week’s cargo and crew missions. NASA Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen started his morning setting up a …
