... and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough arrived to the station's Poisk module at 9:52 GMT and were welcomed aboard by Expedition 49 commander Anatoly Ivanishin, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins. Credit: Bill Ingalls...
... way on board the orbital complex. Kate Rubins, who will assume the role of Flight Engineer for Expeditions 48 and 49 was chosen from a pool of over 3,500 applicants to receive a spot on NASA’s 2009 astronaut training class...
... research or educational projects. Around 250 scientific investigations are conducted on the station at any given time, and an expedition astronaut’s usual stay aboard the orbiting laboratory is six-months. The space station serves as a test bed...
Getting a helping hand – An Orthodox priest performs a blessing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan, ahead of the Soyuz launch that carried Expedition 41 to the International Space Station in September 2014
...-like tissues in microgravity. With the undocking of the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with Koch, Skvortsov, and Parmitano aboard, Expedition 62 officially began aboard the station, with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Morgan as flight engineers and...
...what we would do in space during a spacewalk. The Expedition 42 crew highlights its link to the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide ... (Automated Transfer Vehicle), a European resupply vehicle during our expedition. It brought about seven tons of resupplies to us, and...