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Orbital ATK targets resumption of Antares launches in March 2016
Space station resupply missions launched from Virginia are set to resume in March 2016, after Orbital ATK integrates newly-built rocket engines into the Ukrainian-made booster stage of the company's commercial Antares rocket and puts it through an on-pad test firing in January.
Astronauts, spacesuits ready for spacewalk Saturday
NASA space station managers decided Thursday to delay the first two of three planned spacewalks by one day to give flight controllers and engineers a chance to catch their collective breath after exhaustive troubleshooting to verify the health of critical internal spacesuit components.
VideoPhotos: Russian supply ship blasts off from Kazakhstan
Russia's Progress M-26M cargo carrier lifted off Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket, climbed through clouds and into orbit, then executed an on-time radar-guided docking with the International Space Station six hours later. See photos of the supply ship's launch.
VideoVideo: Progress launches and docks
The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
Soyuz rocket boosts Russian cargo craft to space station
Russia launched a Progress resupply mission Tuesday heading for the International Space Station with more than 6,000 pounds of fuel, supplies and experiments to support the lab's six-person crew, and the automated cargo craft sailed to a smooth link-up with the complex less than six hours later.
VideoProgress cargo mission ready for launch to space station
A Russian Progress supply ship packed with 3.1 tons of cargo and propellant to refuel the International Space Station is set for liftoff Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
VideoVideo: Time lapse of ATV’s final departure from ISS
This time lapse video shows Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle backing away from the International Space Station for the last time Saturday.
Europe’s ATV space freighter bids final goodbye to space station
Europe's fifth and final Automated Transfer Vehicle departed the International Space Station for the last time Saturday, closing out one of the European Space Agency's flagship programs as the bus-sized spaceship heads for a destructive re-entry Sunday.
Europe’s last ATV set to depart from space station
A European supply freighter is set to undock from the International Space Station on Saturday, heading for a destructive dive into Earth's atmosphere about 30 hours later after a power system failure forced the cancellation of an experiment to observe the dynamics of the re-entry of a large spacecraft.
Commercial Dragon supply ship returns to Earth
SpaceX's Dragon supply ship wrapped up a 29-day stay at the International Space Station on Tuesday, departing the complex with nearly 3,700 pounds of research specimens, a balky spacesuit and experimental 3D printed parts before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.