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Soyuz lands in Kazakhstan, returning international crew home
Three space station fliers -- the outgoing NASA commander and two Russian cosmonauts -- undocked and returned to Earth Wednesday, ending a 167-day stay in space with a communications blackout that left the crew out of contact with flight controllers during much of the trip home.
Live coverage: Space station crew back on Earth
Three crew members departed the International Space Station on Wednesday and descended back to Earth, touching down in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-14M capsule at 10:08 p.m. EDT (0208 GMT Thursday).
VideoSpace station crew ready to close out 167-day mission
Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. Navy test pilot will buckle into custom-molded seats inside a Soyuz spaceship Wednesday, undock from the International Space Station and head for a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan to close out a 167-day space voyage.
Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest
The next launch in SpaceX's busy manifest this year is scheduled for March 21, when a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral and deliver Turkmenistan's first satellite into orbit.
NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017
NASA has ordered four additional launches to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2017 -- three from SpaceX and one from Orbital ATK -- to cover the research lab's logistics needs until a new set of resupply contracts take effect.
Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX
Sunday's liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX's workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX.
Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday's blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida's Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites.
Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready to launch dual-satellite stack
SpaceX's 22-story Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Sunday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of a pair of commercial communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite.
Astronauts install antennas for commercial crew capsules
Astronauts Terry Virts and space station commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore ventured back outside Sunday for their third spacewalk in eight days to complete initial preparations for upcoming dockings by commercially developed Boeing and SpaceX crew ferry ships.
Boeing’s first two all-electric satellites ready for launch
A new class of Boeing-built spacecraft will fly into orbit for the first time Sunday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, combining Boeing's electric propulsion technology with SpaceX's bargain launch prices to send up communications satellites at a fraction of the typical cost.