Tag: Spacecraft

21 MAR

Soyuz spacecraft blasts off into space, taking 3-man crew to ISS (VIDEO)

A Soyuz MS-08 rocket has taken off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft is expected to reach ISS in two days. The ISS Expedition 55/56 includes the spaceship commander, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, as well as two onboard engineers, […]

06 JAN

John Young, a pioneer who flew four different spacecraft, has died

Enlarge / John Young on the surface of the moon during Apollo 16. (credit: NASA) John Young was an astronaut’s astronaut—quiet, reticent, and utterly reliable in space. During his long and incomparable career as an astronaut, he flew three different vehicles into space: the Gemini capsule, the Apollo capsule, and the space shuttle. He died […]

12 NOV

Sierra Nevada spacecraft completes first test flight in 4 years

If Sierra Nevada is going to fulfill supply missions for the International Space Station and the UN, it’ll have to prove that its Dream Chaser spacecraft is ready to fly… and it just took a big step in that direction. The company has revealed that Dream Chaser completed a glide test flight on November 11th, […]

12 NOV

The Dream Chaser spacecraft has completed a successful free flight

NASA On Saturday, the Dream Chaser space plane completed a milestone in its development. During an “approach and landing” test, the spacecraft was dropped from a helicopter to fly back to a landing strip at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The company behind the space plane confirmed the successful test in a tweet on […]

12 SEP

Soyuz spacecraft lifts new crew to space station (VIDEO)

Published time: 12 Sep, 2017 21:49 Edited time: 12 Sep, 2017 22:01 The Soyuz MS-06 has successfully blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to deliver three new members of the ISS Expedition 53/54 to their orbital outpost. The spacecraft carrying Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin as well as NASA astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark […]

03 SEP

Soyuz spacecraft brings Space Station Expedition 52 back to Earth (WATCH LIVE)

Published time: 3 Sep, 2017 01:12 Edited time: 3 Sep, 2017 01:19 The Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft has reentered the atmosphere after 135 days in orbit, carrying the Expedition 52 crew from the International Space Station back to Earth. The Expedition 52 crew – NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA, and Commander […]

26 AUG

Why NASA’s twin Voyagers probes are the most important spacecraft ever launched — and could be the last evidence of humanity’s existence

NASA/JPL-Caltech About 1 billion years from now, the sun will begin to die, blow off its outer atmosphere, and engulf our tiny planet in hot plasma. Luckily, the galaxy will have NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft to remember us by. The two nuclear-powered probes launched 40 years ago and became the first and only robots to […]