News Archive / Tagged: Expedition 57

• Home for Christmas: Soyuz MS-09 crew lands in Kazakhstan

  Derek RichardsonDecember 20th, 2018

  Three people made a fiery return to Earth in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule after spending 197 days in space, mostly aboard the International Space Station.

• Bringing a knife to a spacewalk: Cosmonauts inspect Soyuz leak repair

  Derek RichardsonDecember 12th, 2018

  During a spacewalk, two Russian cosmonauts used a knife remove thermal insulation on Soyuz MS-09 in order to inspect a leak repair made earlier in the year.

• CRS-16 Dragon arrives at ISS after ground-based communications issue

  Derek RichardsonDecember 8th, 2018

  SpaceX’s CRS-16 Dragon was captured by the space station crew, despite a communications issue prompting a temporary retreat command being issued.

• 1st International Space Station module turns 20

  Derek RichardsonNovember 20th, 2018

  For two decades, the International Space Station has been a shining example of what can be accomplished when humanity works together.

• NG-10 Cygnus brings experiments, supplies to ISS crew

  Derek RichardsonNovember 19th, 2018

  Less than 24 hours after Progress MS-10 docked with the International Space Station, the NG-10 Cygnus spacecraft rendezvoused with the orbiting outpost.

• Progress MS-10 arrives at International Space Station

  Derek RichardsonNovember 18th, 2018

  Taking two days to reach the International Space Station, Russia’s Progress MS-10 rendezvous and docked with the orbiting outpost’s Zvezda service module.

• Soyuz-FG rocket back in action with successful launch of Progress MS-10

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 16th, 2018

  A Soyuz-FG rocket took to the skies to send the Progress MS-10 spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.

• Astronauts release Kounotori 7 from space station

  Derek RichardsonNovember 7th, 2018

  After a six-week stay at the ISS, the Kounotori 7 cargo ship was unberthed and commanded to depart the vicinity of the orbiting outpost.

• Investigation finds faulty sensor the reason for Soyuz MS-10 accident

  Derek RichardsonNovember 2nd, 2018

  It was a faulty sensor that caused the Oct. 11, 2018, launch abort of a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying two people into space for a planned six-month stay aboard the International Space Station.

• Soyuz MS-10 fails to reach orbit, crew safe – UPDATE

  Derek RichardsonOctober 11th, 2018

  The spacecraft's escape system safely pulled Soyuz MS-10 with its two-person crew away from the failed booster.