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Video: Change of command aboard International Space Station

February 29, 2016 Justin Ray

With his year in orbit at an end, Expedition 46 commander Scott Kelly hands command of the International Space Station to Expedition 47 commander Tim Kopra.

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Station crew to clear new port for second Soyuz docking attempt

August 24, 2019 Stephen Clark

Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, joined by Italian flight engineer Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, plans to relocate his Soyuz spacecraft to a new docking port on the International Space Station late Sunday (U.S. time), clearing a spot for the unpiloted Soyuz MS-14 spaceship to attempt another automated approach to the complex Monday after aborting its first rendezvous, Russian officials said.

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon ready for first test flight

February 28, 2019 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon spacecraft, fixed to the forward end of a Falcon 9 rocket, emerged Thursday from the company’s hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the quarter-mile journey to its launch mount at pad 39A, where liftoff is scheduled early Saturday on a critical test flight before astronauts strap into the ship later this year.

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Live coverage: Three-man station crew lands in Kazakhstan

February 27, 2018 Stephen Clark

Two American astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut boarded their Soyuz MS-06 landing craft for a homecoming Tuesday night, U.S. time, concluding 168 days in orbit. The trio undocked from the International Space Station at 5:08 p.m. EST (2208 GMT), and landed on the snowy steppe of Kazakhstan at 9:31 p.m. EST (0231 GMT Wednesday).

News Headlines

  • SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster arrives at pad ahead of first orbital Starship launch
    September 21, 2026
  • Russian Progress cargo ship arrives at International Space Station
    September 19, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
    September 19, 2026
  • SpaceX launches national security payload for U.S. Space Force from Vandenberg
    September 15, 2026
  • Avio launches pair of climate monitoring European spacecraft to study plants, oceans and atmospheric changes
    September 15, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 700th Falcon rocket, carries final 3 O3b mPOWER satellites to orbit for SES
    September 13, 2026
  • SpaceX launches classified payload for the U.S. Space Force
    September 9, 2026
  • SpaceX launches 80th Starlink mission of 2026
    September 5, 2026
  • SpaceX launches Starlink mission from West Coast
    September 1, 2026
  • Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ launched
    August 29, 2026
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