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Added on the 21/07/2021 18:01:55 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
After over a decade of postponed launches, Russia's troubled Nauka laboratory module has successfully docked at the International Space Station. It will now take several months and multiple spacewalks to fully integrate the module with the space station. The Nauka module blasted off into orbit last week from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carried by a Russian Proton M rocket. IMAGES
The Russian Defence ministry shares images of Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prichal -- which means "pier" in Russian -- is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module. IMAGES
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prichal -- which means "pier" in Russian -- is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module. IMAGES
A record-breaking US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reach earth, with tensions between Moscow and the West soaring over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. NASA's Mark Vande Hei is returning after setting a new record for the single longest spaceflight by a NASA astronaut, clocking 355 days aboard the International Space Station. IMAGES
SpaceX launched its third crewed mission to the International Space Station early Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four astronauts were on board, including Frenchman Thomas Pesquet. IMAGES