Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie's'Space Oddity' on space station with Lyrics Space Oddity with new Lyrics _ [No Copyright] Ground control to Major Tom Ground control to Major Tom Lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on. Ground co.. Continue reading
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Raw: American, 2 Others Return From Space International Space Station – Video
Raw: American, 2 Others Return From Space International Space Station A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely on Tuesday on the steppe… By: newswatchstation Continue reading
Chris Hadfield returns to Earth | International Space Station landed safely – Video
Chris Hadfield returns to Earth | International Space Station landed safely A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew, including Commander Chris Hadfield, returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station l… Continue reading
Space Station Astronauts Home
May 14, 2013: Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), left, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.NASA/AP This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space.AP MOSCOW A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
Space Station Crew Returns to Earth Tonight: How to Watch it Live
After months living in space, two astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will return home from the International Space Station tonight (May 13) and you can watch their landing live online. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American astronaut Tom Marshburn and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are preparing to leave the space station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft for a planned landing at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 May 14 GMT) on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan, where the local time will be early Tuesday morning. Continue reading
Star space station commander and crew make it home
A Russian cosmonaut, a NASA physician-astronaut and outgoing Canadian space station commander Chris Hadfield, whose deft use of social media turned him into an orbital superstar, undocked and plunged back to Earth Monday to close out a five-month stay in space. Two days after an impromptu spacewalk to fix a coolant leak — and one day after a YouTube video of Hadfield singing David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” went viral with more than 1.5 million views — Hadfield, Thomas Marshburn and Soyuz TMA-07M commander Roman Romanenko undocked from the station at 7:08 p.m. ET. Continue reading
Space station crewmates head back to Earth
A Soyuz capsule brings three spacefliers back to Earth after five months in orbit. Continue reading
Astronaut exits space station with music video
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” It’s believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s personalized rendition of “Space Oddity” was posted on YouTube on Sunday, one day before his departure from the orbiting lab. Continue reading
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield in Command of Space Station – Video
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield in Command of Space Station SOYUZ LANDS SAFELY, HADFIELD IN COMMAND — JSC. The Soyuz spacecraft carrying Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and his Russian crewmates, Soyuz Com.. Continue reading
Astronauts take record-breaking six-hour express ride to space station
Video will begin in 5 seconds. RAW VIDEO: A crew of two Russians and one American arrives on the International Space Station. The incoming crew plans to spend five months on board. Continue reading
New crew takes express ride to space station
A new Russian-American crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Friday after a fast-track trip from Earth of under six hours, the swiftest ever manned journey to the orbiting laboratory. A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts opened the hatches of their Soyuz-TMA spaceship and floated into the ISS to a warm welcome from the three incumbent crew, live pictures broadcast on Russian television showed. Russia’s Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and American Chris Cassidy are now expected to spend the next five months aboard the station after their hitch-free launch and docking Continue reading
Fastest ride to space station
Watch a Soyuz rocket lift off, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News A NASA astronaut and his two Russian crewmates made the fastest-ever trip to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving less than six hours after launch. In the past, it’s taken two days for Soyuz spaceships to make the trip from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Continue reading
Soyuz launch sends US-Russian crew on fastest ride to space station
Watch a Soyuz rocket lift off, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News A NASA astronaut and his two Russian crewmates made the fastest-ever trip to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving less than six hours after launch. Continue reading
Russian-American crew taking short cut to space station
By Steve Gutterman and Irene Klotz MOSCOW/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut took a short cut to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving at the orbital outpost less than six hours after their Soyuz capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The express route, used for the first time to fly a crew to the station, shaved about 45 hours off the usual ride, allowing NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to get a jumpstart on their planned 5.5-month mission. Continue reading
Soyuz launched on four-orbit flight to space station
Updated 11:13 PM ET A veteran Russian commander, a rookie cosmonaut and a Navy SEAL-turned-astronaut rocketed into space Thursday and glided to a smooth docking with the International Space Station less than six hours later, a record-setting rendezvous being tested to reduce the time crew members have to spend cooped up inside the cramped Soyuz ferry craft. Soyuz TMA-08M commander Pavel Vinogradov, flight engineer Alexander Misurkin and shuttle veteran Christopher Cassidy blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:43:20 p.m. EDT Thursday (GMT-4; 2:43 a.m. Continue reading
US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) A Russian spacecraft carrying a three-man crew blasted off from a launch pad in the steppes of Kazakhstan, for the first time taking a shorter path to the International Space Station. Continue reading
Space station shifts its orbit to make speedy crew rendezvous possible
Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters A police helicopter flies next to the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft as it is transported to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 26. The Soyuz will carry NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy along with Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to the International Space Station Continue reading
New Space Station Crew Members to Launch and Dock the Same Day
HOUSTON — Three new crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station on a six-hour flight to travel from the launch pad to their destination. Chris Cassidy of NASA, along with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:43 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 28, (2:43 a.m Continue reading
Space Station Crew’s Landing Delayed by ‘Horrible’ Earth Weather
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are stuck in space for one more day after freezing rain and fog on Earth prevented them from landing in Central Asia on Thursday (March 14), NASA officials say. The foul weather, which one Russian space agency official described simply as “horrible,” means NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin had to delay their return from the International Space Station for at least 24 hours. The three men have been living in space for 141 days and were preparing to enter their Soyuz spacecraft for a landing on the frigid steppes of Kazakhstan tonight Continue reading
Russian rocket docks at space station with fresh crew
Three new astronauts arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday morning, NASA announced, carried into space aboard a Soyuz TMA-07M. Continue reading