Descent Module News Today

Its Highstakes Journey Back To Earth. Final goahead. So if all goes well, well see it land back on solid ground in New Mexico within the very hour. Ill be your pilot for live coverage here. Cnn has it all happens before us. Now remember, the capsule is coming back empty, uncrewed and nasa speak. And yes, remembering it correctly, this is the same capsule that wasnt supposed to be uncrewed. It was supposed to have two astronauts coming back home in it, Sonny Williams and butch wilmore. And they a...

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus are safely in orbit on the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft after launching at 8:36 a.m. EDT on March 23, 2024, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (5:36 p.m. Baikonur time).

The three Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are the only people to die in space. One crew member was also the first to celebrate a birthday there.

Soyuz MS-17 departs Station for return to Kazakh steppe April 16, 2021 After more than six months in orbit, the Soyuz MS-17 mission is drawing to a close.  The craft departed the International Space Station with undocking right on time at 21:34 EDT on Friday, 16 April (01:34 UTC on Saturday, 17 April). Sergey Ryzhikov, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Kate Rubins will now spend the next orbit and a half of Earth making final preparations for landing.  The deorbit burn is scheduled for 00:01 EDT / 04...

Roscosmos, NASA celebrate historic launch anniversaries while looking to the future April 12, 2021 Today, Roscosmos is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Vostok-1 mission, which launched Yuri Gagarin and the first human spaceflight, while NASA simultaneously commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the world’s first reusable spacecraft, when John Young and Bob Crippen embarked on the most ambitious test flight in history aboard the shuttle Columbia. The anniversaries arri...