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SpaceX is adding two more Crew Dragons to its fleet
SpaceX is about to double the size of its fleet of Crew Dragon spaceships. The company is debuting a new spacecraft for a NASA launch later this month, and is building a fourth human-rated capsule that should be ready for flight early next year, a SpaceX official said Wednesday.
Soyuz arrives at space station for out-of-this-world film shoot
Chalking up a space first of sorts, a Russian actress, her director-cameraman and a veteran cosmonaut rocketed into orbit, chased down the International Space Station and successfully docked Tuesday, setting the stage for an out-of-this-world movie shoot.
VideoLive coverage: Soyuz docks at space station with Russian film crew
A Russian actress and film director rode into orbit Tuesday alongside a veteran Russian cosmonaut, taking aim on the International Space Station to shoot scenes for a feature-length movie. The three-person crew blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) Tuesday. Docking occurred at 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT).
Russian actress, director set for Tuesday launch to space station
America won the race to the moon, but Russia still proudly claims the most space "firsts," including the first satellite, the first man in space, the first woman, the first spacewalk, the first multi-member crew and the first space station. Now, with commercial spaceflight blasting off in the United States, Russia aims to chalk up another first Tuesday, launching a Russian actress and director to the International Space Station to film scenes for a feature-length movie.
VideoSoyuz rocket rolls out for launch of Russian film crew
A Soyuz rocket rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan Friday, ready to blast off Tuesday to the International Space Station with veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, actress Yulia Peresild, and film director Klim Shipenko.
Cosmonaut shares new perspective of International Space Station
Photos taken by a Russian cosmonaut Tuesday from a Soyuz spacecraft show new exterior views of the International Space Station, with two SpaceX Dragon spaceships, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply craft, and the lab's new roll-out solar arrays visible.
SpaceX cargo ship streaks across Florida on the way to splashdown
A SpaceX supply ship blazed a trail through the atmosphere over the southeastern United States Thursday night and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida, returning home with 2.3 tons of research specimens and cargo from the International Space Station.
VideoLive coverage: Dragon cargo ship departs space station, heads for splashdown
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon supply ship undocked from the International Space Station Thursday and headed for splashdown off the coast of Florida. The reusable cargo capsule departed the station at 9:12 a.m. EDT (1312 GMT). Splashdown off the east coast of Florida occurred at 10:57 p.m. EDT (0257 GMT).
Station crew relocates Soyuz spaceship to new Russian module
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut strapped into their Soyuz ferry ship Tuesday at the International Space Station and moved the craft to a new docking port on Russia's Nauka lab module that arrived at the complex in July.
Spacewalking astronauts continue solar array upgrade work
Three days after a Russian spacewalk, Japanese space station commander Akihiko Hoshide and Frenchman Thomas Pesquet floated outside for their own excursion Sunday, building a support fixture for a roll-out solar array blanket that will be attached later.