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Video: Expedition 49 crew launches to the International Space Station
Watch the launch of Expedition 49, a three-man crew headed for the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
VideoSoyuz crew blasts off from Kazakhstan
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA shuttle veteran blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday and set off after the International Space Station.
Live coverage: Three-man crew docks with space station
A U.S. Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm, a Russian Air Force MiG-29 fighter pilot, and a former flight controller for Russia's Mir space station arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, with a smooth docking aboard a Soyuz spaceship at 0952 GMT (5:52 a.m. EDT), two days after a successful launch from Kazakhstan.
Repaired Soyuz prepped to launch three to space station
Running nearly a month late because of work to repair a damaged cable, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was primed for launch early Wednesday to carry two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut to the International Space Station, boosting the lab's crew back to six.
Antares rocket back in action with successful launch of upgraded booster
A commercial Antares cargo booster powered by new kerosene-fueled rocket engines streaked into orbit from a launch pad on the Virginia coastline Monday, returning to service to resupply the International Space Station after a two-year grounding stemming from a fiery crash in 2014.
Video: Antares post-launch news conference
This is the post-launch news briefing from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility held after the successful return to flight by the Orbital ATK Antares rocket that delivered the Cygnus cargo ship into space.
Video: Antares rocket returns to flight with new engines
The Antares rocket, Orbital ATK's medium-class booster now with modern RD-181 engines, launches at 7:45 p.m. EDT (2345 GMT) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia.
Cargo manifest for the OA-5 station resupply mission
The sixth commercial cargo delivery by Orbital ATK's Cygnus spacecraft, and the first using an Antares rocket since a launch failure in 2014, will carry more than 5,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station.
Key events during the Antares rocket’s climb to orbit
Orbital ATK's Antares rocket will deliver the commercial Cygnus supply ship to an orbit with an altitude between 130 miles and 179 miles within about nine minutes of liftoff from Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Antares launch visibility maps
Residents along the U.S. East Coast from South Carolina to Massachusetts could glimpse Orbital ATK's Antares rocket climbing into space Monday night on a cargo run to the International Space Station.