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Added on the 03/12/2018 09:19:26 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 main crew, bid farewell to their relatives and visitors gathered ahead of the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur facility, in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
Images of a Soyuz rocket being taken to a launchpad in Kazakhstan ahead of the Soyuz MS-24 mission. A Roscosmos Soyuz-2 rocket will launch with two cosmonauts and one astronaut (Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral Ashley O'Hara) to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 15 2023. IMAGES
Europe's new Vega C rocket, which was due to make its first commercial flight with two Airbus satellites on board, was lost after lift-off from Kourou, a failure that inflicts a new setback on Europe's weakened space programme. IMAGES
Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency bid farewell to their relatives ahead of the launch of the first manned space mission to the International Space Station since an unprecedented accident in October. IMAGES
Two US astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station aboard Boeing's Starliner will have to return home with rival SpaceX, NASA says. "NASA has decided that Butch and Sunny will return with Crew 9 next February, and that Starliner will return uncrewed," NASA administrator Bill Nelson tells reporters. The return of Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams has been delayed by thruster malfunctions of the Boeing spacecraft. SOUNDBITE