Kononenko became the 482nd person in space and 473rd to enter orbit on his first launch in 2008, according to the Association of Space Explorers' Registry of Space Travelers. He has flown on five Soyuz and 11 ISS expeditions crews. He performed seven spacewalks, including two with Chub duri...
The SLC-40 pad, newly upgraded to host astronaut launches, now sports a crew access tower and arm, a chute-based pad escape system to whisk crews away in case of danger and should function much like SpaceX's Pad 39A site. It also means more flexibility for SpaceX. "I think operatin...
give the agency experience in station operations in anticipation of the construction of the modularInternational Space Station(ISS). Beginning in 1998, the shuttle was used extensively to take components of the ISS into orbit for assembly and to ferryastronautcrews and supplies to and from the ...
Visiting the ISS as a private astronaut for the first time, after extended stays as a NASA astronaut, was not as big a change for Whitson as the short mission duration. She compared it to visiting shuttle crews during her earlier long-duration stays there. “It felt familiar in that sense...
Kononenko became the 482nd person in space and 473rd to enter orbit on his first launch in 2008, according to the Association of Space Explorers' Registry of Space Travelers. He has flown on five Soyuz and 11 ISS expeditions crews. He performed seven spacewalks, including two with Chub duri...
at the astronaut office in 2015. After four months as deputy, he became NASA’s 14th chief astronaut in July 2015 where he was responsible for flight assignments, mission preparation, and on‐orbit support of U.S. crews, as well as organizing astronaut office support for future launch ...
The crews she served on contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development. Some of the scientific highlights from her missions include improvements to the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which studies dark matter, growing protein ...
Russians recovery crews were on the scene within minutes to assist the returning station fliers out of their cramped Soyuz descent module as they began re-adjusting to the tug of gravity. For veteran Novitskiy and first-time flier Vasilevskaya, the re-acclimation should be re...
"The Crew-6 undock will be five days after this vehicle is there. That's enough time for a good handover between the two crews and such that the Crew-7 guys are ready to rock and roll," Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's ISS Program, said on Monday (Aug. 21) during a press co...
Crew-6's stay of 180 days is typical of space station crews, but commander Steve Bowen, who flew three flights during the space shuttle era, said that shorter-duration missions may become more common as the space station evolves. Related Stories: — NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara ready for So...