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Space station trio returns to Earth: NASA’s Peggy Whitson racks up 665-day record

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and two other spacefliers capped off a record-setting orbital mission today with their return from the… Read More

Three spacefliers join International Space Station’s crew after a quick six-hour trip

Three fresh crew members arrived at the International Space Station today aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft today, just six hours… Read More

Progress cargo ship docks with space station, tightening up on orbital parking

With today’s arrival of a Russian Progress cargo ship, the International Space Station now has three robotic spaceships and a… Read More

Video: NASA astronaut and two Russians return to Earth with ‘bull’s-eye touchdown’

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian crewmates Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko landed back on Earth today after spending almost six… Read More

Round-the-moon trip intrigues billionaire spaceflier Charles Simonyi, but he won’t go

Charles Simonyi, the billionaire software executive who’s flown to space twice, says he doesn’t know who’s on SpaceX’s passenger list for… Read More

NASA goes ahead and buys Russian rides to space station through Boeing

NASA has agreed to purchase at least two trips to and from the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, from… Read More

NASA looks into buying more Russian Soyuz trips to orbit … through Boeing

NASA is considering a convoluted arrangement to reserve five more seats on Russian Soyuz capsules heading to and from the… Read More

Space station trip makes NASA’s Peggy Whitson the oldest woman in space

Today’s liftoff of a Soyuz spaceship heading for the International Space Station launched NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson into the history… Read More

Space station trio gets warm reception after chilly touchdown in Kazakhstan

Just a week after a fresh trio of spacefliers moved into the International Space Station, three other crew members returned to Earth… Read More

U.S.-Russian trio moves into space station

Three new crew members were welcomed aboard the International Space Station today, just in time to help out with a… Read More

NASA’s Jeff Williams sets record as he and space station crewmates return to Earth

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams returned to Earth from the International Space Station in the company of two Russian cosmonauts tonight,… Read More

Trio gets to space station after 2-day trip

The first craft in Russia’s upgraded fleet of Soyuz spaceships reached the International Space Station overnight, delivering a trio of U.S.,… Read More

Space station’s next crew lifts off for a long trip in Russia’s upgraded Soyuz spaceship

Three spacefliers from three countries – the United States, Russia and Japan – began a longer-than-usual flight to the International Space Station tonight… Read More

Abort, retry, fail? Astronaut pokes fun at Windows XP during space training in Russia

Moscow, we have a problem: Russia’s cosmonaut training center in Star City might need to upgrade its Soyuz spacecraft simulators… Read More

Q&A: Charles Simonyi on the magic of space and the ‘coziness’ of the trip home

Seattle’s Museum of Flight this week dedicated its new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, named after the former Microsoft engineer and… Read More

Congratulations, Seattle: You’re getting a space toilet

It just kept getting better and better at Seattle’s Museum of Flight today. First former, Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi announced… Read More

Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi

Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it… Read More