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News Source: Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
A pair of spacewalking astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Tuesday to begin repairs on a long-standing problem with the outpost's power system. Lead spacewalker Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper and rookie astronaut Stephen Bowen...
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News Source: CCTV
| 11 months ago
After a nearly-two-day pursuit, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station and docked with it at 5:01 p.m...The space linkup occurred under the shroud of darkness as both spacecraft passed over the Earth's night side.
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News Source: Xtra News
| 11 months ago
Astronauts aboard the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour beelined toward the International Space Station on Sunday with a full load of equipment to expand the orbital outpost and a new crew member...EST for an 11- or 12-day service call to prepare the...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 11 months ago
So as part of their 15-day mission, the seven astronauts on Endeavour will deliver two new sleeping units, a bathroom, a kitchenette and exercise equipment. They will also install a new system to recycle wastewater into safe drinking water. On...
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News Source: Epoch Times
| 11 months ago
Florida—The shuttle Endeavour crew scanned the ship's wings and heat shield on Saturday, checking for damage after Friday's launch as it headed for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The inspections, done with a sensor-laden boom...
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News Source: Xtra News
| 11 months ago
Astronauts orbiting the Earth aboard the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour unfolded a robotic arm on Saturday to inspect the ship's heat shielding as they sped toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station. Florida, their main priority on...
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News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 11 months ago
Kennedy Space Center in Florida today with a 32,000-pound payload on its 15-day mission...Magnus, who will stay at the ISS for several months, said that while many people expressed revulsion at the recycling system, she laughed about the "yuck factor"...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 11 months ago
Ferguson and his crew will double as plumbers and installers once they arrive at the 220-mile-high space station Sunday, hooking up extra cooking and sleeping equipment as well as a new water recycling system so the station's crew can expand next...
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News Source: Washington Post
| 11 months ago
The new toilet will go into the American laboratory known as Destiny. The only toilet currently on the station is in the Russian lab...The goal is to make the station habitable by as many as six astronauts at a time, double the current crew limit.
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News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into the night sky Friday, bound for the international space station and the most extreme home makeover project ever attempted by astronauts...EST, right on time, in a brilliant flash of light...