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Two cosmonauts are getting ready to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday night for some orbital maintenance work. Three Astronauts May Be Stranded on the ISS After Disturbing Soyuz Coolant LeakCommander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin are scheduled to perform their spacewalk at 9:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday to move a radiator from one side of the ISS to the other. The extravehicular activity will be broadcast live on NASA TV, as well as the space agency’s website. You can also…

The Expedition 68 crew members welcoming Crew-6 members on board the space station.Photo: NASA TVFour astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, finally crossing through the space station’s hatch after ground teams troubleshooted a faulty sensor on SpaceX’s Dragon capsule.SpaceX’s sixth operational crewed mission for NASA, aptly named Crew-6, blasted off on Thursday at 12:34 a.m. on board a Falcon 9 rocket. The crew was carried by SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavor, which was scheduled to dock to the ISS at…

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket standing at the Florida launch pad. Photo: NASA/Joel KowskyFollowing a last-minute scrubearly Monday morning, SpaceX is set to transport four astronauts to the International Space Station. You can catch the action live right here.The four astronauts, two from NASA and the others from Russia and the United Arab Emirates, were all set to go earlier this week, but a problem with the Falcon 9’s engine ignition system forced controllers to issue a scrub with a little over two minutes left in the…

The SpaceX Falcon 9 during a routine static fire test performed on the morning of Friday, February 24, 2023.Photo: NASA/Joel KowskyFour astronauts—two from NASA and the others from Russia and the United Arab Emirates—are set to blast off and begin their six-month mission onthe International Space Station. You can watch the launch live right here.SpaceX’s sixth operational crewed mission for NASA is scheduled for launch on Monday, February 27 at 1:45 a.m. ET (Sunday, February 26 at 10:45 p.m. PT). That’s probably a bit…

The Crew-6 astronauts arriving at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch and Landing Facility in Florida on February 21.Photo: NASA/Kim ShiflettA new astronaut crew is getting ready to cohabitate in low Earth orbit while conducting dozens of science experiments and research during a six-month period on board the International Space Station. SpaceX’s sixth operational crewed flight to the orbiting lab will include two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut, and an Emirate astronaut as part of ISS Expedition 69. Thefour-person crew…

The recent Progress 82 coolant leak was caused by an “external impact” and not some kind of manufacturing defect, Roscosmos is now claiming. At the same time, the Russian space agency is still having to deal with the fallout from the Soyuz MS-22 coolant leak in December, with plans to launch the replacement vehicle on Thursday. Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut who were originally slated to return to Earth next month will have to wait until later this year to ride aboard the Souyz MS-23, which will remain…

Russia’s Progress 81 resupply ship (not to be confused with the afflicted Progress 82 ship), seen departing the ISS on February 7, 2023. Photo: NASAFor the second time in two months, a docked Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station has sprung a coolant leak. Investigators don’t yet know the cause of the latest leak, prompting Russia’s space agency to delay the launch of a ‘lifeboat’ that’s meant to secure the safety of two cosmonauts on board.The MS-23 Soyuz spacecraft—the uncrewed replacement vehicle—was…

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket at the LC-2 pad in Virginia.Photo: Rocket LabObservers along the U.S. East Coast could be in for a treat this week, as Rocket Lab is set to perform the first launch of an Electron rocket from its new Virginia launch pad.Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are all planning to perform launches in the coming days, and NASA is beginning a series of solemn events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. Here’s what’s happening in the…

San Francisco, NASA and SpaceX have set February 26 as the launch date for the Crew-6 mission, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay.The mission is NASA's sixth crew rotation flight.Crew-6 will send the SpaceX Dragon capsule Endeavour aloft atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the US, according to a NASA blogpost.The mission will carry NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates)…