Tag: soyuz
Space station relocates capsule to help Soyuz
The crew of the International Space Station has successfully relocated a Soyuz space capsule to another docking port to facilitate the rendezvous with another spacecraft. The manoeuvre followed Saturday’s failed docking of the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft. The docking attempt was aborted due to a suspected glitch linked to an automated control system on board the…
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft blasts off into space
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft took off on Saturday morning, marking the first major step towards US ambitions to resume sending astronauts into space on its own spacecraft on American soil. The un-crewed spacecraft launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2.49am local time (7.49am UK time) as planned, on top of a Falcon…
Tim Peake’s Soyuz spacecraft ‘lands’ at Ulster Transport Museum
Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland. Picture Matt Mackey / Press Eye. The spacecraft which transported the UK’s first European Space Agency astronaut, Tim Peake, to and from the International Space Station (ISS) has landed at the Ulster Transport Museum. Presented by Samsung and the Science Museum Group, The National…
Astronauts blast off to ISS less than two months after failed launch
Astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) less than two months after the previous Soyuz mission failed. Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency NASA, David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos left aboard the Russian spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just…
First Korean astronaut proud to be endorsed by the Samsung NV series
Lucky old Yi So-yeon has just popped up into space today making her the first South Korean to hit escape velocity, courtesy of the latest Russian Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.
She’s been sponsored by the proud company of her homeland, with Samsung kitting her out with a couple of cameras for the journey. So she gets space AND free camera. If she comes round here the lucky cow will be greeted by a stony, jealous silence…