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For years to come, the International Space Station will be the site for experiments benefiting earth research and extended space flight...Spotts Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the November 29, 2009 edition The US shuttle Atlantis...
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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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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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Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. Efforts to build a successor to the 40-year old Soyuz spacecraft have dragged...
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And Jeffrey Manber was the US representative of RKK Energia, the company that owned the Mir space station. In this exclusive excerpt from Apogee Books' Selling Peace , he recalls the cultural clash that happened when his boss came to visit from Moscow....
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Two astronauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday for the first of three spacewalks to stock the orbiting lab with spare parts. Veteran spacewalker Mike Foreman and rookie astronaut Bobby Satcher began the outing at 9:24 a.m....
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The shuttle blasted off on Monday with six astronauts on an 11-day voyage to deliver new equipment to the station. The docking was manually completed by commander Charlie Hobaugh as the two spacecraft travelled towards each other at 17,000 miles an hour....
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The space shuttle Atlantis is due to rendezvous with the International Space Station at 11:53 a.m. Japanese researchers have filmed a young coelacanth — a rare fish known as a "living fossil" — deep in the ocean off Indonesia. The Kindle e-book reader...
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The Atlantis astronauts plan a high-flying arrival at the International Space Station today after a two-day trip from Kennedy Space Center. With mission commander Charlie Hobaugh at the controls, Atlantis is scheduled to dock at the outpost just...
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The space shuttle Atlantis is heading for a late-morning rendezvous with the International Space Station. The shuttle and the orbiting stations are slated to dock Wednesday at 11:53 a.m. ET. But just before the link-up, Atlantis will perform a pirouette...
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