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Jeannie Kuich Friday, November 27th 2009 I would like to alert the people of the Virgin Islands to the exciting sightings of the International Space Station accompanied by the shuttle Atlantis beginning today and continuing through Monday. The station...
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Swiss physics teacher Barbara Burtscher has been selected to undergo Mars training in the United States, a further step in her dream of becoming an astronaut. The training will take place at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, whose clients include...
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown yesterday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station. Within a few hours of landing, the astronauts feasted on turkey and trimmings...
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As for the hardest things to do on board, the astronaut mentioned microgravity: “You are losing things, because if you let something go here, like, for example, a pencil, it will float, it won’t stay in its place.
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A top Russian space official says there is no space for tourists wishing to fly to the International Space Station. Sergei Krikalyov said that since the space stations crew has doubled to six people, there is no room for tourists in the Russian spacecraft...
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The examination tests the spacemen’s level of preparedness for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS). The three-stage Soyuz-FG rocket that carries the Soyuz-TMA space shuttle is scheduled to launch from a space center in Kazakhstan on December...
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Philippine authorities said Wednesday they are investigating a politician allied with the government and four police commanders in connection with an election-related massacre earlier this week. New U.S economic data shows a slowly improving job market...
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ET The Canadian Press Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk holds willow sapling that are part of a Canadian experiment while on board the International Space Station. Thirsk says his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station has not been that stressful....
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Atlantis shuttle astronaut Robert Satcher Jr. holds a camera during his mission's first spacewalk Atlantis shuttle astronaut Robert Satcher Jr. holds a camera during his mission's first spacewalk The crew of the shuttle Atlantis plans to spend today...
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The third and final spacewalk of space shuttle Atlantis' mission will conclude Monday, 23, 2009, at 1 p.m...Satcher will be joined outside by Randolph Bresnik, the father of a new baby girl. A pair of astronauts stepped out on the third and final spacewalk...
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