Soyuz spacecraft

This ship that ferries astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS is getting some new bells and whistles.

The Model T of Space: Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Turns 50

Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. Click on image to enlarge

Russia might return to its legendary Soyuz spacecraft as the vehicle of choice in the international effort to explore the Moon.

See photos from the May 13, 2014 landing of the a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Japanese spaceflyer Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin to wrap up a 188-day space mission.

S73-27666 (May-June 1973) --- A close-up view of the Soyuz spacecraft which was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project exhibit at the 30th International Aeronautics and Space Exhibition held May 24 -- June 3, 1973 at the Le Bourget Airport in Paris, France. The ASTP exhibit was co-sponsored by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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The USA and USSR meet in space during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, pictured in 1975 NASA concept art by Paul Fjeld.

When NASA's last scheduled Space Shuttle mission lands in June of 2010, the United States will not have the capability to get astronauts into space again until the scheduled launch of the new Orion spacecraft in 2015. Over those five years, the U.S. manned space program will be relying heavily on Russia and its Baikonur Cosmodrome facility in Kazakhstan. Baikonur is an entire Kazakh city, rented and administered by Russia. The Cosmodrome was founded in 1955, making it one of the oldest space…

Preparations for Soyuz TMA-04M launch At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft stands poised in its integration facility May 8, 2012 ready to be enshrouded in the upper...