Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

NASA: Expedition 43 undocks and begins voyage home, after 199 days (VIDEO)

Houston, Usa - The members are: Terry Virts (NASA), Samantha Cristoforetti (ESA, European Space Agency) and Anton Shkaplerov (Roscosmos)

After spending 199 days aboard the International Space Station, Terry Virts, Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov undocked from the station at 6:20 am EDT to begin their voyage home. Shkaplerov, the Soyuz commander, is at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft. They will perform a separation burn to increase the distance from the station before executing a 4-minute, 35-second deorbit...

fra/pec - 1169004
Rome, Italy, 06/11/2015 16:38
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AerospaceAirbus-Nasa: collaboration to monitor climate change from space

GRACE-C contract for two spacecraft awarded

Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new mission of American Space Agency and the German o... more

AerospaceSpace X: Crew 8 mission launched

Dragon will dock with the space station tomorrow

On Sunday, March 3 at 10:53 pm ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s eighth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-8) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Spa... more

AerospaceERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

The satellite was launched almost 30 years ago, in 1995

At approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on Wednesday 21 February 2024, ESA’s ERS-2 satellite completed its atmospheric reentry over the North Pacific Ocean. No damage to property has been reported.ESA’s sec... more

◄ Previous page