Progress supply ship launched to station

An unmanned Russian Progress supply ship was successfully launched Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Read More...

Soyuz TMA-19 moved to new Russian port

Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, flight engineer Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock strapped into the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft that carried them into orbit earlier this month, undocked from the Zvezda command module's aft port and redocked at the new Russian Rassvet module.
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NASA assesses shuttle launch dates

NASA managers Tuesday asked shuttle engineers to assess retargeting the final two space shuttle missions, moving launch of a mid-September flight with Discovery to Oct. 29 and a late November flight by Endeavour to Feb. 28. The changes would give engineers more time to optimize payloads bound for the International Space Station and avoid launch conflicts with other flights to the lab complex. Read More...

Soyuz TMA-19 docks with space station

Completing a two-day orbital rendezvous, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a veteran cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts docked with the International Space Station's aft port Thursday, boosting the lab's crew back to six.
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Soyuz TMA-19 blasts off

Lighting up the pre-dawn Kazakhstan sky, a Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a veteran Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts roared to life and vaulted into orbit Tuesday, kicking off a two-day flight to the International Space Station.
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SpaceX launches initial Falcon 9

Powered by 10 engines and the vision of an internet entrepreneur, an untried Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Friday and successfully boosted a dummy payload into orbit on a maiden voyage intended to help pave the way for commercial missions to the International Space Station.
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Falcon 9 countdown aborted

Running two-and-a-half hours late because of technical problems and a sailboat in the launch danger zone, SpaceX attempted to launch its new Falcon 9 rocket on its maiden flight Friday, but the countdown was interrupted with less than five seconds to go by an unspecified problem.
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Falcon 9 set for maiden launch

Downplaying expectations, the founder of SpaceX, one of the companies NASA is counting on to help resupply the International Space Station after the shuttle's retirement, said Thursday he believes the maiden flight of the new Falcon 9 rocket Friday has a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of succeeding.
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Soyuz TMA-17 lands in Kazakhstan

The Soyuz TMA-17 crew capsule, carrying outgoing space station commander Oleg Kotov, Timothy Creamer and Soichi Noguchi, settled to a safe parachute-and-rocket-assisted landing in Kazakhstan Tuesday after a descent from the International Space Station.
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Soyuz TMA-17 undocks from station

The Russian Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft, carrying outgoing Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov, Timothy Creamer and Soichi Noguchi, undocked from the International Space Station Tuesday evening, setting the stage for landing in Kazakhstan to close out a five-and-a-half-month mission.
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Kotov, Creamer, Noguchi prepare for landing

Outgoing space station commander Oleg Kotov, NASA flight engineer Timothy Creamer and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi floated into their Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft Tuesday afternoon, closed the hatch and readied the ship for for undocking and landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 163-day stay in space.
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