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33 The Soyuz MS-26 crewed mission has carried NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch took place on Wednesday, September 11, at 16:23 UTC from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the ISS just over
Starliner approaches the International Space Station during a test flight in 2022. The orbiting laboratory was flying 430 kilometers (270 miles) above the South Pacific at the time of this photograph. Credit: NASA When NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams took off from Earth On June 5, aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on its first
What will we do with the International Space Station when the facility is retired? That seems to be the question hanging over us at the moment. NASA’s report on the reasons for decommissioning the ISS suggests that the agency’s imagination (and budget) appears to be running out. It appears that, through new projects like the
The International Space Station, photographed by astronauts in October 2018. Credit: NASA Although it may be hard to believe, the International Space Station (ISS) is nearing the end of its life. Some readers may have been born after the first section of the ISS was launched in 1998 and have never lived in a world
Back to list of articles NASA and Boeing are continuing to evaluate Starliner for return to Earth and are considering reserving seats for Wilmore and Williams on the upcoming Crew-9 mission. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station module Credit: NASA NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams have had a
