Soyuz capsule

A pair of U.S. astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut are just two days away from launching on a 50-hour, 34-orbit flight to the International Space Station. Flight Engineers Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel will flank Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev inside the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft and blast off ...

The mission will utilize the veteran Soyuz-FG rocket, atop which three crew members, two Americans and one Russian, will depart for the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:44 UTC (13:44 EDT; 23:44 local time at Baikonur) ...

Engineers readied a Russian Soyuz rocket for launch Wednesday to ferry a veteran cosmonaut and two NASA shuttle fliers to the International Space Station for a five-month stay. Soyuz commander Oleg Artemyev, flight engineer Andrew "Drew" Feustel and Richard "Ricky" Arnold are scheduled for launch ...

BAIKONUR /Kazakhstan/, March 19. /TASS/. The Soyuz-FG carrier rocket and Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft have been installed on a launch pad at the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan, a source in Russia's Roscosmos Space Corporation told TASS. "In accordance with a decision made by the state ...

A Soyuz rocket launched Friday with four commercial satellites to expand broadband Internet coverage in remote parts of the world, climbing into orbit from the Guiana Space Center positioned on the northeastern shore of South America. The Russian-made rocket lifted off at 1710:06 GMT (12:10:06 p.m. ...

The Soyuz lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana at 12:10 p.m. EST (1710 GMT) after a 33-minute delay caused by bad weather. Despite the slow start, Arianespace had a flawless launch today. "The mission has been a total success," Martin Halliwell, the chief technology officer ...

The European launch provider Arianespace has delayed the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying four new mobile communications satellites to no earlier than Friday (March 9) to conduct extra checks for the mission. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket was scheduled to launch the four O3b communications ...

A statement says that Soyuz also takes inspiration from several eras and subject matters including “the doomed Russian space capsule Soyuz and its iconic captain Komarov, the Tibetan Buddhist funeral practice in Sky Burial, the inclusion of the oldest recording of the human voice from 1860 and the Hans ...

The American space vehicle that made up one half of the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) has traded its Plexiglas cover for a new glass display case at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The six-sided enclosure not only affords the public a clearer view of the three-seat spacecraft, ...

Russian officials have not officially disclosed a reason for the last-minute abort — the second in a row for a Progress resupply launch — but the website RussianSpaceWeb.com, which reports on Russia's space program, said a component of the Soyuz flight control system was replaced after Sunday's scrub.

The Russian Progress resupply ship MS-08 has docked with the International Space Station, two days after launching on a Soyuz 2-1A rocket. Docking was marked at 10:38 UTC. The original launch was to result in docking at the International Space Station (ISS) just 3.5 hours later on Tuesday. However ...

This handout photo released by Roscosmos space agency on November 29, 2016 shows service towers moving towards the Soyuz-U carrier rocket. ... MOSCOW - Russian space agency Roscosmos has delayed the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship by two days after Sunday's ...

A Russian Soyuz booster and an automated Progress resupply ship reached their launch pad Friday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, two days before firing into orbit test out a new expedited rendezvous sequence that will culminate in the Progress spacecraft's docking with the International ...

Norwegian Art-rock progressive outfit Gazpacho are set to release their brand-new studio album Soyuz through Kscope on 18th May 2018. Known for their distinctive art rock that balances tense and beautiful arrangements, sinister and soulful melodic lines, Gazpacho'sSoyuz furthers their experimental ...

As per the timeline, Soyuz MS-06 undocked from the ISS at 23:08 UTC. At the time of undocking, Expedition 55 began aboard the station. Shkaplerov, NASA's Scott Tingle, and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will crew the station until three additional crew members arrive on ...

With cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin at the controls in the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft's center seat, flanked on the left by flight engineer Mark Vande Hei and on the right by Joe Acaba, the Russian spacecraft separated from the station's Poisk module at 6:08 p.m. EST (GMT-5) to begin the three-and-a-half-hour ...