Topic: Kazakhstan
Space capsule carrying Russian, 2 Americans lands in KazakhstanA Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Americans and a Russian from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan.Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock touched down Friday morning in the ...
Return to earth of US astronauts may be brought forward by international summitOfficials in Kazakhstan say the return to Earth of three astronauts from the International Space Station may be brought forward to next week so it doesn't clash with an international ...
Official: Russian spacecraft damaged during transportation to launch siteRussia's space agency chief says that a spacecraft that is used to ferry crew to the international space station in December has been damaged during transportation by rail.Anatoly Perminov said Thursday that experts found ...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka are due to launch to the space station at 7:10 P.M., U.S. Eastern time, from the Baikonur launch center in Kazakhstan. Here's video of the Soyuz rocket being prepared for ...
Expedition 24 flight engineers Tracy Caldwell Dyson, left, and Mikhail Kornienko, right, flank their commander Alexander Skvortsov as all three get a hero's welcome shortly after they exited their Soyuz capsule near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on Saturday, September 25, 2010. Read more about ...
Departure of Soyuz capsule from space station delayed amid undocking problemsThe return of three astronauts to Earth onboard a Soyuz capsule from the International Space Station has been delayed after crew ran into problems while undocking.U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson and Russia's Alexander ...
Delayed more than three hours while troubleshooting problems with the docking mechanism holding a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, Russian flight controllers called off an attempt to bring three crew members back to Earth Friday pending additional work to resolve ...
Like many other firsts in space exploration, the first space station was launched by the Soviet Union. The space station had a dry weight of 18,425 kg (40,620 pounds), and was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in present-day Kazakhstan.The purpose of Salyut ...
Phobos-Grunt, Russian spacecraft that is designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos and bring some of its soil back to Earth. Phobos-Grunt (Russian for "Phobos soil") is Russia's first interplanetary spacecraft since 1996 and, if successful, will be Russia's first mission ...
Russian space capsule with 3 astronauts from space station lands in KazakhstanRussian mission control says a Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts from the International Space Station has landed in Kazakhstan.The landing on the barren Central Asian steppes on Tuesday morning took place ...
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