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.
Falcon 9
SpaceX launches space station resupply mission, lands rocket on drone ship
With a thundering, sky-lighting predawn blastoff from Cape Canaveral, a Falcon 9 rocket fired into orbit early Saturday with a Dragon cargo capsule in pursuit of the International Space Station. Minutes later, the rocket’s first stage booster fell from the sky and executed a pinpoint propulsive landing just offshore, setting the stage for another resupply mission for NASA this summer using the same vehicle.
Mission Reports
Rocket for next space station crew arrives on launch pad in Kazakhstan
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket rolled out to a launch pad Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ready for the first crewed flight to use the modernized Soyuz booster configuration. Liftoff with two Russian cosmonauts and a veteran NASA astronaut is scheduled Thursday on an expedition to the International Space Station.
