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Roscosmos is Russia's state space corporation, operating Soyuz and Progress spacecraft and overseeing the country's crewed spaceflight and launch programs.
The four astronauts of NASA's Crew-12 mission splashed down off California on Oct 8, a day after undocking from the space station. The Guardian reported that capsule repairs held up their replacements by three weeks, adding time to a hurried relief tour that lasted eight months.
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NASA's Crew-13 launched four crew Thursday on a Dragon due to dock at the space station 7 hours 50 minutes later, a U.S. record by NASA's account. NASA stated the record before the docking took place, so it holds only once the 7 p.m. arrival happens.
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NASA's Crew-12, four astronauts from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos, is due back from the space station in early October. The agency's look back sets out what the crew's experiments in drug crystallisation, bone repair and quantum physics were built to test.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 will fly four astronauts from three agencies to the space station no earlier than Oct. 1. Its research includes human stem-cell-derived heart and Parkinson's tissue models, and their value will depend on how they compare with matched samples kept on the ground.
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A cruise missile hit on the Progress Rocket Space Center targets where Soyuz vehicles are built, not where they fly. Roscosmos was already short of rockets before the strike.
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Moscow has treated a Starlink substitute as a priority since SpaceX cut Russian forces off on February 1, yet only 12 of the 32 satellites Bureau 1440 has launched are holding a durable altitude. The record does not yet say which link failed.
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