Space station crew returns home after 8-month mission
Two NASA astronauts, a European flier and a Russian cosmonaut will close out an eight-month mission with splashdown Thursday.
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Two NASA astronauts, a European flier and a Russian cosmonaut will close out an eight-month mission with splashdown Thursday.
Mike Fincke thanked NASA for making crew health the agency's top priority.
NASA said the unidentified astronaut is "stable," but the agency is considering all options, including a possible early return to Earth for Crew 11
No final decisions have been made and NASA remains hopeful ongoing tests will show the Starliner can safely return its crew to Earth.
The problem for NASA and Boeing is that the Starliner's service module is discarded before re-entry and burns up in the atmosphere.
NASA plans to hold a formal re-entry readiness review before setting a new landing target date.
The planned piloted launch of Boeing's long-delayed Starliner crew ferry ship was called off with less than two hours to go before liftoff.
Two veteran astronauts will put the Starliner through its paces in the ship's first piloted flight to orbit.
Landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan completed the replacement of five long-duration space station fliers.
Descent from the International Space Station closed out an unexpected 371-day stay, the longest flight in U.S. space history.
Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut crewmates return to Earth next Wednesday to wrap up a U.S. record 371-day stay in orbit.
Representing the United States, Europe, Japan and Russia, the four Crew-7 fliers plan to spend six months aboard the space station.
The crew includes a legendary retired astronaut, a wealthy adventurer and two Saudi astronauts — the first people from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to visit the space station.
The Crew Dragon delivered a three-country, four-man crew for a six-month stay. They'll replace four other station crew members who plan to return to Earth around March 9.
The four Crew Dragon fliers will replace another crew that will be wrapping up a 154-day stay in orbit.
The new roll-out solar arrays will help make up for age-related degradation in the International Space Station's original solar wings.
Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio float outside the space station to install the third of six new roll-out solar blankets.
Two Russian cosmonauts went on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Monday to activate a new robotic arm.
NASA has postponed a spacewalk scheduled for Tuesday after receiving a space debris warning for the International Space Station.
On Sunday, two astronauts installed support frames on the International Space Station for new solar panels arriving later this year.
American astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conducted a spacewalk Monday outside the International Space Station to wrap up battery replacement work they began last week.
A pair of astronauts on the International Space Station were able to install new pumps on a cosmic ray detector during a spacewalk on Monday.
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, the U.S. astronauts who took part in the first all-female spacewalk, are still uplifted by all the excitement down below.
Two women aboard the International Space Station will make history on Friday when they take part in the first all-all female spacewalk.
Astronauts replaced more oversized batteries outside the International Space Station on Friday during NASA's second spacewalk of the week, just as news broke of the death of the world's first spacewalker in Russia.
