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Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station
Loaded with mice, plant specimens and the International Space Station's first espresso machine, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the complex Friday with a fresh delivery of supplies. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti grappled the spacecraft with the station's robot arm at 6:55 a.m. EDT (1055 GMT).
Falcon 9 rocket fires engines for prelaunch test
SpaceX engineers ran through a customary prelaunch countdown test Saturday and fired the Falcon 9 rocket's nine Merlin main engines at Cape Canaveral ahead of liftoff Monday with 2.2 tons of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station.
SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday
Weather forecasters will be on the lookout for rain showers and thunderstorms during Monday's scheduled launch of a SpaceX cargo craft to the International Space Station, but there is a 60 percent chance conditions at Cape Canaveral will permit liftoff.
SpaceX, Sierra Nevada get more time to finish flight tests
NASA has extended development agreements with SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corp. past a March 31 deadline, giving the companies more time to complete delayed tests on commercial spacecraft intended to one day ferry astronauts into space.
SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13
The launch of SpaceX's next resupply run to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for April 13, officials said Tuesday.
Photos: Fiery start to marathon space mission
A three-man crew donned pressure suits, strapped into a Russian Soyuz space capsule and rode a rocket into orbit Friday, starting a record-setting expedition on the International Space Station that -- for two of the crew members -- will last for 342 days.
Live coverage: Crew blasts off on record-setting space mission
Three space station residents launched Friday from Kazakhstan, kicking off a nearly yearlong expedition to help plan for future voyages to Mars. The crew blasted off on a Soyuz rocket heading for the International Space Station at 1943 GMT (3:43 p.m. EDT). Docking occurred at 0136 GMT (9:36 p.m. EDT).
One-year space expedition starts with 18-hour workday
Two veteran spacemen embarking on a marathon yearlong mission in orbit must first sprint through a busy workday Friday -- suiting up for liftoff, climbing into their Soyuz spaceship, then flying to the International Space Station.
VideoSoyuz primed to launch veteran space station crew
A Soyuz rocket is sitting on a historic launch pad in Kazakhstan after a railroad journey at sunrise Wednesday positioned the crew ferry craft for liftoff Friday with a three-man crew destined for the International Space Station, including two spaceflight veterans who will spend nearly one year in orbit.
Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday
Russian launch crews on two continents are putting the final touches on a pair of Soyuz rockets scheduled to blast off less than two hours apart Friday -- one carrying a three-man crew to the space station, and another boosting two European navigation satellites into orbit from the Amazon jungle.