NASA TV to broadcast the departure and landing of the International Space Station’s Expedition 39/40 crew

(NASA astronaut, and the space station’s Expedition 40 commander, Steve Swanson along with cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, both Roscosmos flight engineers – Photo Credit: NASA)

NASA Television have confirmed that they will broadcast the departure and landing of Steve Swanson, Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev: crew members aboard the International Space Station who will end their six month stay on the orbiting laboratory and return to Earth on September 10th.

Putin pledges over $1billion to ensure new cosmodrome is ready for 2015 launches

(Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Rogozin and Oleg Ostapenko visit the construction site at Vostochny Cosmodrome – Photo Credit: Alexei Druzhinin/Reuters/RIA Novosti/Kremlin)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged an extra 50 billion rubles ($1.3 billion) to Roscosmos to ensure that the new Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East, intended to reduce the space agency’s reliance on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, would be ready to launch new-generation Soyuz-2 rockets by 2015 and Angara vehicles, currently in development, by 2020.

Soyuz rocket delivers first Scottish satellite safely into orbit

(A previous Soyuz launch – Photo Credit: Roscosmos)

A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket has successfully delivered two British satellites, including the first made in Scotland, into orbit.

Another amazing video from the International Space Station

(The red sea during sunset – Photo Credit: Oleg Artemyev/Roscosmos)

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has posted another breathtaking video looking at the Earth and the structure of the International Space Station.

SpaceX unveil manned Dragon spacecraft which will carry astronauts to the International Space Station

(Photo Credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX have taken a pivotal step in the private-sector race to provide NASA with safe and reliable transport to and from International Space Station.

Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO, unveiled the new craft at an invite only event at the company’s headquarters in California on May 29th.

3 Astronauts return to Earth after 6 months at International Space Station

(Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

After living on the International Space Station for 188 days, astronauts Koichi Wakata, Rick Mastracchio and Mikhail Tyurin returned to Earth on May 14th.