Jonathan D. Woods

Soyuz docking with the international space station

Watch Astronauts Dock With the International Space Station

The crew is slated to stay in space for five months, returning on Dec. 22.

The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft before launch.

Watch 3 Astronauts Launch for the International Space Station

Three astronauts who will spend the next five months in space launched from...

Three astronauts who will spend the next five months in space launched from the desert in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. The astronauts launched to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz rocket...

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren boards the Soyuz TMA-17M rocket before its launch to the ISS, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, 22 July 2015. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV

Exclusive: Astronaut Talks About Going to Space for the First Time

He'll be in space for five months

American astronaut Deke Slayton and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz linkup.

See Photos From the Historic Apollo-Soyuz Mission

Witness the pivotal U.S.-Soviet mission that paved the way for greater inte...

Witness the pivotal U.S.-Soviet mission that paved the way for greater international partnerships

The International Space Station is seen from the space shuttle Discovery as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week during flight day 12 activities on March 7, 2011 in Space.

Space Junk Forces Space Station Crew to Seek Shelter

The debris was a fragment from an old Russian weather satellite

Joe Biden takes a mock oath of office from George H. W. Bush, accompanied by his family in Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 3, 1985.

See the Life of Beau Biden

The Vice President's elder son, Beau, died at 46 after battling brain cance...

The Vice President's elder son, Beau, died at 46 after battling brain cancer

People try to free a man from the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25, 2015.

See the Most Dramatic Rescue From the Nepal Earthquake

A man was pulled from the rubble alive in Kathmandu after a 7.8-magnitude q...

A man was pulled from the rubble alive in Kathmandu after a 7.8-magnitude quake struck on Saturday