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5:27pm, 17th April, 2019

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to the space station

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket lifts off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, sending a robotic Cygnus cargo capsule into orbit. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Almost four tons of supplies, hardware and are heading to the International Sp...

2:16am, 15th March, 2019

Space

Months after aborted flight, U.S.-Russian crew makes smooth trip to space station

A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin finally made it to...

9:26am, 8th March, 2019

Space

SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship splashes down at end of crucial space station trip

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship hits the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for splashdown. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean today, ending a six-day uncrewed test run preparing the way for astronaut tri...

4:06am, 8th March, 2019

Space

SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship leaves space station for autonomous trip home

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship floats away from the International Space Station, with its nose cone still flipped open after undocking. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship undocked from the International Space Station and headed toward...

8:05am, 3rd March, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship hooks itself up to space station for first time

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is docked to the International Space Station. (NASA TV via YouTube) SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship docked with the International Space Station for the first time today, marking a successful uncrewed rehearsal of the procedure tha...

9:45pm, 22nd February, 2019

Space

NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station

An artist’s conception shows a Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station. (SpaceX / NASA Illustration) NASA of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station in a week, setting the stage for crewed missions later thi...

1:40pm, 8th February, 2019

Space

Astronauts install Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer plus recycler on space station

NASA astronaut Anne McClain installs Tethers Unlimited’s Refabricator recycling and 3-D printing payload aboard the International Space Station. (NASA Photo via Tethers Unlimited) NASA astronauts on the International Space Station have installed the...

11:16pm, 21st November, 2018

Space

This year, there’ll be empty spaces at the table for Thanksgiving on space station

NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, at right, takes a group selfie with Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev and Germany’s Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station. (NASA Photo) Thanksgiving is traditionally a time for big gatherings around the di...

5:15am, 17th November, 2018

Space

Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship, doubling up space station deliveries

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket lights up the night at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (NASA via YouTube) Two uncrewed cargo craft are now en route to the International Space Station, thanks to the launch of a Northrop Grumman Cygnus sp...

5:54pm, 8th November, 2018

Space

Russians reboot space station computer

A picture taken from the International Space Station shows Japan’s robotic HTV-7 cargo ship being released from the station’s Canadian robotic arm. (ESA Photo / Alexander Gerst via Twitter) A balky computer system is working again on the Internationa...

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Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to the space station

Months after aborted flight, U.S.-Russian crew makes smooth trip to space station

SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship splashes down at end of crucial space station trip

SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship leaves space station for autonomous trip home

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship hooks itself up to space station for first time

NASA, SpaceX and a test dummy are ready for Dragon 2’s first trip to space station

Astronauts install Tethers Unlimited’s 3-D printer plus recycler on space station

This year, there’ll be empty spaces at the table for Thanksgiving on space station

Antares rocket launches Cygnus cargo ship, doubling up space station deliveries

Russians reboot space station computer

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