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The spacecraft Shenzhou-19 and its three crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 4:27 a.m. (2027 GMT), according to state media.
Launch: October 31, 2000 Time docked: ~183 days Yuri Gidzenko. Sergei Krikalev William M. Shepherd. Deliver Expedition 1 crew, the first long-duration stay. 7. 4A STS-97 Endeavour Launch: November 30, 2000 Time docked: 6 days 23h Brent W. Jett. Michael J. Bloomfield Joseph R. Tanner Carlos I. Noriega Marc Garneau. Deliver P6 Truss. 3 spacewalks ...
Expedition 8 Commander and Science Officer Michael Foale conducts an inspection of the Microgravity Science Glovebox. ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, STS-116 mission specialist, works with the Passive Observatories for Experimental Microbial Systems in Micro-G (POEMS) payload in the Minus Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) inside the Destiny laboratory.
The initial spacewalk to begin the assembly of the International Space Station was held on 7 December 1998, [4] following the launch of the first section of the station, Zarya, from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 20 November 1998. [5] The spacewalk attached the U.S.-built Unity node to Zarya. [4]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft blasted off with NASA astronauts onboard for the first time on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes test flight to the space station.
Progress MS-28 (Russian: Прогресс МC-28), Russian production No. 458, identified by NASA as Progress 89, is a Progress spaceflight launched by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It is the 181st flight of a Progress spacecraft.
Deployment date and time Satellite name Operator Transport to the ISS Outcome 20 August 2012 18:29 [4] Sfera-53: Roscosmos: Progress M-16M: Success Passive satellite, deployed from ISS during space walk. [5] 4 October 2012 14:37 [6] WE WISH: Meisei Electric: HTV-3: Success [7] [8] 4 October 2012 14:37 [6] Raiko: Tohoku and Wakayama universities ...
The Destiny module, also known as the U.S. Lab, is the primary operating facility for U.S. research payloads aboard the International Space Station (ISS). [2] [3] It was berthed to the forward port of the Unity module and activated over a period of five days in February, 2001. [4]