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VideoLive coverage: Soyuz crew safe after emergency landing
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague landed safely downrange in Kazakhstan on Thursday after a Soyuz booster failure cut short their ascent into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome toward the International Space Station. The emergency landing was the first Soyuz in-flight abort since 1975.
VideoPhotos: Soyuz transferred to Baikonur launch pad
A Soyuz rocket poised to send two new crew members to the International Space Station rolled to its launch pad Tuesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
VideoLive coverage: Two Americans, one Russian back on Earth from space station
Two U.S. astronauts flanked a veteran Russian cosmonaut Thursday for a ride back to Earth from the International Space Station. The trio undocked from the station in their Soyuz spacecraft at 0757 GMT (3:57 a.m. EDT), beginning a return flight that culminated in a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 1145 GMT (7:45 a.m. EDT).
VideoLive coverage: Japanese supply ship launches in pursuit of space station
Japan's seventh HTV resupply mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Tanegashima Island on Saturday aboard an H-2B rocket. The unpiloted cargo carrier launched at 1752 GMT (1:52 p.m. EDT), kicking off a nearly five-day pursuit of the space station.
VideoLive coverage: Cygnus supply ship departs space station
A commercial Cygnus resupply craft that received a new corporate owner while berthed at the International Space Station -- thanks to Northrop Grumman's acquisition of Orbital ATK in June -- departed the research complex Sunday. The supply ship was released by Canadarm 2 on the space station at 8:37 a.m. EDT (1237 GMT).
VideoRelive the Progress MS-09 freighter’s expedited journey to space station
Russia's Progress MS-09 cargo craft made a 3-hour, 40-minute trip from a launch pad in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station on Monday, setting a record for the quickest journey to the orbiting research laboratory. Look back on the mission's predawn launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and radar-guided docking at the space station with these images and videos.
VideoRussian cargo ship to try fast-track rendezvous with space station
A Russian Soyuz rocket and Progress resupply freighter are set for liftoff Monday on an accelerated, less-than-four-hour rendezvous with the International Space Station after last-minute launch scrubs prevented two similar fast-track approach attempts in recent months.
VideoSpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station
A commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule packed with a robot assistant for the International Space Station's crew, pouches of extra strong coffee, and a NASA science instrument designed to track the health of plants on Earth left Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday on a three-day pursuit of the orbiting research lab.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX supply ship arrives at space station
A SpaceX-owned Dragon supply ship packed with nearly three tons of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Monday after a three-day trip from Cape Canaveral. The station's robotic arm grappled the cargo capsule at 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 GMT).
VideoSpace junk clean-up demonstrator deployed from space station
A small satellite assembled in Britain has been released from the International Space Station, commencing a standalone mission to test technology and techniques that could be used to capture and de-orbit space junk in low Earth orbit.