Spacewalkers complete one main job, run out of time for another
The fourth all-female spacewalk accomplished one major objective, but the crew ran out of time to retrieve a failed electronics box.
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The fourth all-female spacewalk accomplished one major objective, but the crew ran out of time to retrieve a failed electronics box.
The flight is the fourth keeping the Chinese space station permanently staffed with rotating crews of taikonauts.
The coolant leak in the experiment radiator follows similar leaks in a Soyuz crew ferry ship and a Progress cargo craft.
Two Russian cosmonauts left the International Space Station for an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday to locate the source of a radiator coolant leak. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood has the details.
It's the third leak of heat-dissipating coolant on the International Space Station in less than a year, but officials say the crew is in no danger.
Descent from the International Space Station closed out an unexpected 371-day stay, the longest flight in U.S. space history.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is finishing up the longest single flight in U.S. space history at 371 days.
Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut crewmates return to Earth next Wednesday to wrap up a U.S. record 371-day stay in orbit.
The crew is replacing another Soyuz crew, including NASA's Frank Rubio, who's wrapping up a record 371-day stay in space.
Loral O'Hara will spend six months aboard the space station; two Russian crewmates plan to stay a full year.
Frank Rubio moved past NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei's 355-day record on the way to spending more than a full year in space.
The Crew Dragon put on a spectacular show as it descended across Florida in a blaze of super-heated plasma.
A crew of four safely splashed down after spending six months aboard the International Space Station.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying a four-man crew headed home in the final chapter of a long-duration station stay.
Hurricane Idalia is expected to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast on Wednesday.
NASA shared video from the International Space Station as it flew over Hurricane Idalia, which was heading toward Florida on Tuesday. Idalia is expected to grow into a Category 3 hurricane before making landfall on Wednesday. (There is no audio on this footage from the space station.)
The Crew Dragon arrival briefly boosts the space station crew to 11 in the first of two crew rotation flights.
The Crew Dragon fliers are replacing four other station crew members who are wrapping up a six-month stay.
Running a day late, the four person crew plans to dock at the International Space Station early Sunday.
A SpaceX Crew-7 flight will take an international team of four to the space station. Moghbeli will be the only American abroad, and is leading the mission.
NASA and SpaceX will make another attempt to launch four fresh crew members to the space station Saturday morning.
SpaceX launches another batch of Starlinks and readies a Crew Dragon flight to the space station while Russia launches its Progress supply ship.
Representing the United States, Europe, Japan and Russia, the four Crew-7 fliers plan to spend six months aboard the space station.
Along with needed research gear and other equipment, the Cygnus delivered a pizza kit, fresh fruit and ice cream to the station crew.
Northrop Grumman launched the final Antares 230+ rocket Tuesday on a flight to deliver four tons of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. The rocket booster was built in a cooperative venture with U.S., Russian and Ukrainian components. Watch the launch.