Like most rockets made back then (and most others still in use today), the Soyuz is an expendable machine. Unlike them, it is one with a record number of flights to its name: over 1,900.

The Falcon 1 was the first rocket manufactured by SpaceX. It had a proposed capacity to carry 670 kilograms (1,480 lbs.) to low Earth orbit, and it flew between 2006 and 2009.

A Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian commander, a NASA co-pilot and a United Arab Emirates guest cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, chased down the International Space Station and ...

13.8K. Russia’s first satellite launch of 2019 took place Thursday, with a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 23:47 local time (16:47 UTC) carrying the EgyptSat ...

Launches & Spacecraft SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates nebula-like ring in night sky | Space photo of the day for June 27, 2025. ... Delta and Soyuz rockets, with the U.S. and Russia leading the way.

And finally, if there is more serious damage to the Soyuz in orbit, Russia will need to accelerate the launch of the next Soyuz spacecraft in line, MS-23, and fly it autonomously to the space station.

The images show the Soyuz engines’ exhaust trail as the rocket roared toward space with a beautiful orbital sunrise as the backdrop. Other pictures show the spacecraft in the blackness of space ...

Lifetime was gradually extended from 60-90 days for the Soyuz Ferry to more than 180 days for the Soyuz-TM. Third-Generation Station: Mir (1986-present) Mir was the first permanent space station.

In the video, astronauts Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev, and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst are shown riding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft into the sky at speeds of ...

The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft is seen approaching the Poisk module of the space station prior to docking on Saturday as the space station was flying 260 miles above northern Mongolia.