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Chinese spaceship with 3 astronauts aboard docks with Tiangong space station
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Chinese spaceship with 3 astronauts aboard docks with Tiangong space station

[ad_1] The station has now expanded to its maximum size, with three modules and three spacecraft attached for a total mass of nearly 100 tons. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. Docking with the Tiangong station came at 5:42 a.m. Wednesday, about 6 1/2 hours after the Shenzhou-15 spaceship blasted off atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The six-month mission, commanded by Fei Junlong and crewed by Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, will be the last in the station's construction phase, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The station's third and final module docked...
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Cargo ship reaches International Space Station despite jammed solar panel
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Cargo ship reaches International Space Station despite jammed solar panel

[ad_1] A Northrop Grumman capsule delivered several tons of supplies to the International Space Station on Wednesday despite a jammed solar panel. The shipment arrived two days after launching from Virginia. Only one of the cargo ship's two round solar panels opened following liftoff. Flight controllers tried in vain to open the stuck panel, but managed to draw enough power for the flight with just one. As the capsule made its slow approach, the space station crew took pictures so engineers might understand what went wrong. NASA astronaut Nicole Mann then used the station's robot arm to grab the spacecraft, dubbed the S.S. Sally Ride in honor of America's first woman in space. A company vice president, Cyrus Dhalla, later said a piece of debris from the Antares rocket became lod...
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China launches 3rd and final space station component
31Oct By adminNo Comments
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China launches 3rd and final space station component

[ad_1] Mengtian was blasted into space on Monday afternoon from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan. China on Monday launched the third and final module to complete its permanent space station and realize a more than decade-long effort to maintain a constant crewed presence in orbit, as its competition with the U.S. grows increasingly fierce. Mengtian was blasted into space on Monday afternoon from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan. A large crowd of amateur photographers, space enthusiasts and others watched the lift-off from an adjoining beach. Many waved Chinese flags and wore T-shirts emblazoned with the characters for China, reflecting the deep national pride invested in the space progra...
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Latest four-member SpaceX crew, including cosmonaut, welcomed aboard space station
7Oct By adminNo Comments
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Latest four-member SpaceX crew, including cosmonaut, welcomed aboard space station

[ad_1] A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team safely docked with the International Space Station (ISS). A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit, safely docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and moved aboard to begin a five-month science mission. Rendezvous of the latest NASA expedition to the orbiting laboratory came just after 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) following a 29-hour flight to the ISS as the two vehicles circled the globe some 250 miles (420 km) above Earth off the west coast of Africa, according to a NASA webcast of the docking. The autonomously flying Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Endurance, was lofted into orbit on Wednesday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's K...
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Samantha Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command International Space Station
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Samantha Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command International Space Station

[ad_1] Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station. Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space.The outgoing commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, used the occasion to seemingly make a rare space-bound reference to the war in Ukraine, saying that "despite the storms on Earth, our international cooperation continues". During a relaxed ceremony, Artemyev handed Cristoforetti a golden key, symbolising that she is the new commander of the space station until she returns to Earth on October 10. Cristoforetti, a 45-year-ol...
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American, Russians to blast off for International Space Station as Ukraine war rages
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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American, Russians to blast off for International Space Station as Ukraine war rages

[ad_1] A US astronaut and 2 Russian cosmonauts are set to blast off to the International Space Station despite tensions between Moscow and Washington over Ukraine war. A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to blast off to the International Space Station Wednesday on a Russian-operated flight despite soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. Rubio will become the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since President Vladimir Putin sent troops i...
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