Station Orbiting Higher to Welcome Next Crew Mission

NASA's Space to Ground: Preboarding for Spaceflight | Week of April 4, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground: Preboarding for Spaceflight | Week of April 4, 2025NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexander Zubritsky will lift off aboard the Soyuz MS-27 at 1:47 a.m. on April 8, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will orbit Earth twice before docking to the Pirs docking comp…

Station Orbiting Higher to Welcome Next Crew Mission

The International Space Station is orbiting higher today after the Progress 91 cargo craft fired its thrusters for over 17 minutes while docked to the Zvezda service module. The reboost places the orbital outpost at the correct altitude for the arrival of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft and its three crew members next week.

The Roscosmos State Corporation announced that on April 8, 2025, a record number of spectators — at least 2,500 people — will gather at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to watch the launch of the Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle, which will send the Soyuz MS-27 manned spacecraft into space. This event promises to be one of the largest in terms of the number of invited guests in recent years. Among them will be famous... The post More than 2,500 people, includin…

The International Space Station (ISS) raised its orbit this Wednesday with the help of the Russian cargo ship Progress MS-30 for the next launch of the Soyuz MS-27, scheduled for April 8, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. The entry The IEE corrects its orbit to receive the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-27 was first published in Digital Process.