News Archive / Tagged: Soyuz MS-08

• Soyuz MS-08 crew completes 197-day space station mission

  Derek RichardsonOctober 4th, 2018

  After spending 197 days in space, three members of the International Space Station’s Expedition 56 crew returned to Earth in their Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft, landing in Kazakhstan some 300 miles (500 kilometers) from where they launched in March.

• International Space Station crew size doubles with Soyuz MS-08 docking

  Derek RichardsonMarch 24th, 2018

  The International Space Station returned to its full crew compliment of six people after the three-person Soyuz MS-08 docked with the orbiting outpost to join the ongoing Expedition 55.

• Gallery: Soyuz MS-08 launches toward ISS

  Derek RichardsonMarch 21st, 2018

  In the sparsely populated Kazakh Steppe in Kazakhstan, Russia's state-run space corporation, Roscosmos, launched three people to the International Space Station. Soyuz MS-08 lifted off pad 1/5 at 1:44 p.m. EDT (17:44 GMT) March 21, 2018, from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

• Soyuz MS-08 trio lights up Kazakh sky to begin 2-day trek to ISS

  Derek RichardsonMarch 21st, 2018

  Lighting up the Kazakh Steppe at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, three fresh International Space Station crew members launched toward space to begin a two-day chase of the orbiting outpost. Soyuz MS-08 launched at 1:44 p.m. EDT (17:44 GMT) March 21, 2018.

• Soyuz MS-08 trio set for 2-day flight to ISS

  Derek RichardsonMarch 20th, 2018

  Three more people are set to leave Earth to live aboard the International Space Station for about five months. They are slated to launch in their Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft at 1:44 p.m. EDT (05:44 GMT) March 21, 2018, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.