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US Russian crew to be released three times on the International Space Station
The Russian Soyuz rocket carrying NASA astronauts Johnny Kim, Roscosmos Kosmonos Sergei Lizhikov, Alexei Zubritsky and the Soyuz MS-27 spaceship will lift it towards the Russian-Russian space station on the Russian rental Baikonur Cosmodrome. NASA astronaut Johnny Kim and two Russian crew members successfully boarded a Russian spacecraft on Tuesday to the International Space Station. A planned Soyuz booster rocket…
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SpaceX launches private astronauts in polar orbit of the first crew
This photo includes FRAM2/SPACEX show, left to right show, mission specialist Eric Phillips, medical officer, mission commander Chun Wang, Pilot Travel Lodge and vehicle commander Janik Mikkelsen. SpaceX is set to launch the Earth’s polar regions directly on Monday, a multi-day, personally funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named “FRAM2” after the famous Norwegian ship built for the Arctic and…
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Crew launch to ISS Paves is a way for “stuck” astronauts ‘returns
This screen grab image from NASA’s live broadcast shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blowing up a Crew Dragon capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida towards the International Space Station. It’s not long to go straight away. After more than nine months on the International Space Station, the two astronauts are one step closer to returning home after…
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Musk spit out with Danish astronauts on a “abandoned” ISS crew
Danish astronaut Andreas Morgensen will speak at the Kennedy Space Centre in August 2023. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man, entered the warm queue with Danish astronauts on Thursday, with former President Joe Biden deliberately taking two American astronauts on the International Space Station He criticized the tech billionaire’s claims that he had abandoned it. Andreas “Andy” Morgensen is in…
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Chinese space station crew returns after 6 months in orbit
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Three Chinese crew members returned to Earth early Monday after staying at the Tiangong space station for more than six months, state news agency Xinhua said. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangshou were all in “good health” after landing in the return capsule of the spacecraft Shenzhou at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia,…
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NASA’s Artemis II crew uses Icelandic terrain for lunar training
NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch stands in the stark landscape of Iceland during a geology field training course. Photo by NASA/Robert Markowitz Black and grey sediment stretches as far as the eye can see. Huge boulders lie on the bare ground. Humans look almost miniature against the band of shadowy mountains. At first glance, it seems…
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