Human Spaceflight

NASA marks 15 years of space station occupation

November 2, 2015 William Harwood

The International Space Station’s first three-man crew moved in on Nov. 2, 2000, 15 years ago Monday, the first of 45 expeditions to date that have logged a decade and a half of continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit.

NASA space station program manager stepping down

August 5, 2015 William Harwood

Mike Suffredini, manager of NASA’s International Space Station program, is stepping down after 10 years overseeing the lab’s final assembly and transition to post-shuttle operations, the agency said Wednesday. Kirk Shireman, deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, will take over as program manager.

NASA names cadre of commercial crew astronauts

July 9, 2015 William Harwood

Four veteran astronauts have been selected to train for launch aboard new commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX that are intended to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station starting in 2017, NASA announced Thursday.

Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September

June 25, 2015 Stephen Clark

Russia’s space agency says a Kazakh cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station on 10-day mission in September, replacing British singer Sarah Brightman, who backed out of the mission in May.

Three station fliers set for return to Earth

June 10, 2015 William Harwood

Three space station crew members packed up for a fiery return to Earth Thursday, wrapping up a nearly 200-day mission that was extended one month at the last minute because of a Russian rocket failure in April that threw a wrench into the lab’s crew rotation schedule.

NASA marks 15 years of space station occupation

NASA space station program manager stepping down

NASA names cadre of commercial crew astronauts

Cosmonaut from Kazakhstan to fly on Soyuz in September

Three station fliers set for return to Earth

Russia updates launch schedule for ISS crews, cargo

Dashcam video records dazzling Soyuz docking

Boeing gets first order for commercial crew mission