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VideoVIDEO: Expedition 42 news conference on eve of launch
Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and their backups hold a news conference on the eve of launch.
International crew set for launch to space station Sunday
Soyuz TMA-15M commander Anton Shkaplerov, flanked on the left by flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and on the right by NASA astronaut Terry Virts, are scheduled for liftoff from complex 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday.
China launches for the second time in 24 hours
A mysterious new Chinese rocket lifted off and put a small satellite several hundred miles above Earth, marking China's second space launch in less than 24 hours.
Deep Space Climate Observatory arrives at Florida launch site
A novel NOAA climate observatory with a unique past arrived at Cape Canaveral to begin two months of launch preparations, testing, and fueling before liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
VideoSoyuz ferry craft moved to launch pad
Riding a specialized railroad car before dawn Friday, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of a cavernous assembly building and arrived at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff Sunday with American, Russian and Italian crew members heading for the International Space Station.
VideoVIDEO: Expedition 42-43 mission preview
AN overview of Expeditions 42-43 aboard the International Space Station.
Pegasus rocket selected to launch ICON satellite
NASA has selected an Orbital Sciences Corp. air-launched Pegasus XL rocket to place a small research satellite in orbit in 2017 to study the connection between Earth's weather and space weather.
VideoVideo: Soyuz launcher ready for rollout
Inside the final assembly building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is mated to the core of the Soyuz booster rocket for Sunday's Expedition 42 launch to the International Space Station.
Spy satellite launched to serve Chinese government
A Long March 2D rocket blasted off from a remote space base in northwest China on Thursday and climbed into orbit with a clandestine satellite to collect intelligence for the Chinese government.
VideoVideo: Space station Expedition 42 fit check
The next Expedition 42 trio waiting to join the International Space Station crew conducted final Sokol launch and entry suit fit checks at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.