Americans and a German on the orbiting outpost.A video of Artemyev taken as the spacecraft prepared to dock

MOSCOW--A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module successfully hooked up with the International Space Station Friday after a two-day space journey. The new spherical module, named Prichal( Pier), docked with the orbiting outpost at 6: 19 p.m. Moscow time( 1519 GMT).... It has six docking ports and will allow potential future expansion of the Russian segment of the station. The module has moored to the docking port of the new Russian Nauka( Science) laboratory module.On Wednesday, a So

They smoothly docked at the station just over three hours later, joining two Russians, four Americans and a German on the orbiting outpost. The blastoff marked the first space crew launch since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.... 24. The war has resulted in canceled spacecraft launches and broken contracts.... Many worry, however, that Rogozin is putting decades of a peaceful off-planet partnership at risk, most notably at the International Space Station. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson played do

Musk’s company has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years, since it started ferrying astronauts for NASA.... As for the reintroduction to gravity, he noted: “ Only one complaint.... More than 1, 500 pieces of shrapnel spread across Earth's orbit for years to come. While the war in Ukraine has caused tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the astronauts have stood by their Russian crewmates, and vice versa....

( Reuters)-Three Russian cosmonauts were due for launch on Friday to the International Space Station( ISS), continuing a two-decade-plus shared Russian-U.S. presence aboard the orbiting outpost despite heightened terrestrial tensions between Moscow and Washington. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the new cosmonaut team was set for lift-off at 1555 GMT( 11: 55 a.m. Eastern time) from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a three-hour-plus ride to the space station. Soyuz commander Oleg

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