... 90-minute flight by Yuri Gagarin almost 60 years ago routine space missions are getting longer in duration, with flights of up to six months or more on the International Space Station (ISS) now typical. Future missions will undoubtedly last even...
Astronaut Karen Nyberg looks through a window in the newly installed Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery is docked with the station (NASA June 2008)
... on its return-to-flight mission on December 3rd, 2015. The spacecraft will bring over 3500 kilograms of research materials, supplies and hardware to the International Space Station. The Cygnus is scheduled to launch at 5:55 p.m EST (2255 GMT) from...
.... A Russian Soyuz FG rocket successfully launched the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft on its mission to the International Space Station. The launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome took place at at 21:02 UTC. The Soyuz, a trusty “work horse” of a spacecraft...
... a similar, stylish appeal. Crew Dragon is one of two privately designed spacecraft being contracted by NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station by 2017. Lack of congressional funding means that NASA currently relies...
... carrying a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. About 10 minutes later, the first stage landed - and remained upright - on the ship stationed more than 200 miles down range in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the first time SpaceX succeeded...