A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American en route to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched on Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, live footage showed. The Soyuz, carrying Russian Oleg Novitsky, Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya and American Tracy Dyson, is due to dock with the ISS at 1510 GMT on Monday. Novitsky and Vasilevskaya will return to Earth on April 6 with Loral O'Hara, a U.S. astronaut currently aboard the orbital station.
Grand Theft Tomato A scandal on board the International Space Station has finally been put to bed. For months now, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has been accused by his fellow crew members of eating a tiny tomato that was laboriously grown on board the space station. But as it turns out, Rubio did absolutely nothing […]