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Added on the 30/03/2022 07:16:10 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut touch down on the Kazakhstan steppe following a half-year mission, according to footage broadcast by NASA and the Russian space agency. Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins landed at 0455 GMT around 150 kilometres from the town of Zhezkazgan. 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
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 53-54 crew held a pre-flight press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday. The three crew members, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, September 13 in 2017.
Popular British astronaut Tim Peake got people's attention by sharing the details of his life in space on his social media accounts. He launched up into the cosmos and made it back down to earth to tell his tale all with the help of this Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Now you can see the craft for yourself at the London Science Museum.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station and started its journey to return to Earth with two US astronauts aboard. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken spent two months aboard the orbiting laboratory after becoming the first US astronauts to reach ISS on an American spacecraft in nearly a decade. IMAGES