Astronauts install antennas for commercial crew capsules
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Terry Virts outside the International Space Station on Sunday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Astronauts Terry...
View ArticleSpace station crew ready to close out 167-day mission
Credit: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space...
View ArticleLive coverage: Space station crew back on Earth
Mission Status Center Live coverage of the Expedition 42 mission on the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on...
View ArticleSoyuz lands in Kazakhstan, returning international crew home
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION Elena Serova, Alexander Samokutyaev and Butch Wilmore recline after exiting their Soyuz spacecraft following landing. Credit:...
View ArticlePhotos: Soyuz landing craft touches down in wintry Kazakhstan
A three-member space crew returned to Earth just after sunrise Thursday in Kazakhstan, descending through a sun-splashed sky under an orange and white parachute before dipping through fog for a...
View ArticleNASA reveals crews for first flights of commercial spaceships
NASA introduces the astronauts assigned to the first flights of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now NASA announced Friday a mix of...
View ArticleCommander of first piloted Starliner test flight steps down from mission
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore, left, and Chris Ferguson, director of Mission Integration and Operations at Boeing, train for the first...
View ArticleBoeing crew capsule test flight now scheduled for late summer
Boeing’s second spaceflight-rated CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is weighed before flight in this photo from January. Credit: Boeing/John Proferes A second unpiloted test flight of Boeing’s Starliner...
View ArticleTechnical snags force another delay for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule
Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule descends toward White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico to wrap up the unpiloted Orbital Flight Test 2 mission on May 25, 2022. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Boeing and NASA...
View ArticleBoeing, NASA target May 1 for first crewed flight of Starliner to the space...
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) and Butch Wilmore (right) pose in front of a graphic of the mission patch for the Starliner Crew Flight Test. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now NASA is...
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