Soyuz

27 Aug

Russian spacecraft with humanoid robot docks at ISS

Moscow: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a humanoid robot successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday following a failed attempt."The docking has taken place," said the Mission Control Centre. The docking of Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft with the Russian Fedor, short for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, robot took place several minutes ahead of the schedule, it said.The docking was rescheduled after a failed attempt on August 24. During the first attempt of docking, a fault occurred in the ISS equipment responsible for the safe approach and airlocking, and then the Mission Control Centre decided to withdraw the spacecraft to…

24 Jun

3 astronauts set to return on Earth abroad Russian spacecraft

Washington: Three Expedition 59 crew -- NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency -- are set to ride back to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft would undock from the ISS at 5 a.m. (India time) on Tuesday morning and land in Kazakhstan later in the night.Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Nick Hague would continue their stay aboard the orbiting lab. The crew is completing a 204-day mission spanning 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of…