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Added on the 06/02/2020 10:47:03 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
American astronaut Christina Koch, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano are set to return to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday. Koch will touch down in Kazakhstan after 328 days at the ISS as the holder of the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Skvortsov of Roscosmos are rounding off standard half-year missions. IMAGES
Suivez @numerama pour anticiper l'avenir ! Ces images d’aurores boréales ont été capturées depuis la Station spatiale internationale. Zena Cardman, astronaute actuellement en mission à bord de l’ISS, a partagé cette vidéo sur X le 17 novembre. Elle confie n’avoir jamais vu d’aurores depuis la Terre, alors qu’en orbite, le spectacle est fréquent Sur ce cliché, on distingue Houston, la Floride et les aurores boréales dans un même cadre, juste avant que l’équipage ne survole le golfe et une série d’orages spectaculaires illuminant l’Amérique du Sud au lever du soleil. Crédits : NASA/JSC/Z. Cardman
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov hug their International Space Station crewmates before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to Earth. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev closes the hatch of the capsule. NASA, earlier in March, said tensions linked to the war in Ukraine had no impact on ISS operations or the planned return of an American astronaut aboard a Russian capsule later this month. There have been fears that soaring tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine could leave the 55-year-old stranded on the outpost. There had been fears that soaring tensions between the United States and Russia over Ukraine could leave the 55-year-old Vande Hei stranded on the outpost. IMAGES
Wrapping up a 185-day mission spanning 2,960 orbits of Earth and 78.4 million miles, NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov bid farewell to their colleagues aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as they prepare to return to Earth. IMAGES
Suivez @numerama pour anticiper l'avenir ! La Russie ne peut plus envoyer de cosmonautes dans l'espace à cause d'un lancement raté de la mission Progrès MS-33, censée ravitailler l'ISS : on vous explique ! __ #numerama #espace #iss #astronaute #russie #nasa