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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.
VideoOTD…March 24 and STS-45
Studying the atmosphere as part of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth was the objective of shuttle Atlantis' STS-45 mission in March 1992.
VideoOTD…March 22 and STS-3 and STS-76
#OTD in 1982 the 3rd launch of the space shuttle and in 1996 the 3rd Mir docking missioN
VideoOn This Date…March 15 and STS-119
#OTD in 2009, shuttle Discovery delivers power payload to space station.
VideoOn This Date…March 13 and STS-29
#OTD in 1989, Discovery launched a new Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
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.
VideoOn this date: March 8
#OTD in 2001, Discovery launched on STS-102 to exchange crews aboard the International Space Station
VideoOn this date…March 4 launch of STS-62
#OTD in 1994, the launch of Columbia on the STS-62 microgravity research mission
VideoOn This Day… Endeavour Launches on ASTRO-2 Mission
#OTD in 1995, Endeavour launched on the ASTRO-2 astronomy mission: