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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: American resupply craft returns space station science home
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Thursday, May 21, 2015. American resupply craft returns space station science home. A commercial resupply craft departed the International Space Station on Thursday and wrapped up a historic month in orbit with a successful splashdown of the coast of California. Dragon is the world's only uncrewed spacecraft able to both deliver scientific experiments and return them safely to earth. Only hours following splashdown, Dragon had been plucked out of the water and placed on the deck of the boat for its t...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: NASA New Horizons historic flyby of Pluto underway
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Monday, July 13, 2015. NASA New Horizons historic flyby of Pluto underway. New Horizon images of the icy dwarf planet Pluto. (NASA). After traveling over three billion miles a small NASA spacecraft is making a historic fly-by of the icy dwarf planet Pluto and returning the first up close images and science data ever recorded. New images are making NASA scientists grin. "For the first time on Pluto, (new) views reveals linear features that may be cliffs, as well as a circular feature that could be an ...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: Small moon discovered orbiting a near Earth asteroid
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Small moon discovered orbiting a near Earth asteroid. NASA astronomers studying a speeding asteroid which passed close to our planet on Monday learned it carries an orbiting moon of its own around the icy rock as it moves across our solar system. NASA Near Earth Objects program cooperates with universities and the private sector in studying and discovering asteroids using high gain radar antennas across the globe. ". Radar is a powerful technique for studying an asteroid's size...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: Record setting space flight touches down in Kazakhstan
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Thursday, June 11, 2015. Record setting space flight touches down in Kazakhstan. An American, Russian and Italy's first female astronaut safely returned to Earth on Thursday following a one month delay which gave the crew a record setting extended spaceflight. The delay allowed Cristoforetti to become the new record holder with the most time in space by a female on a single spaceflight. The Italian astronaut also now holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a European astronaut. With Shkaplerov at...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: NASA readies station for commercial dockings as Russia plans departure
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. NASA readies station for commercial dockings as Russia plans departure. Two spacewalking astronauts continued with jobs outside the International Space Station on Wednesday to prepare the orbiting outpost for a pair of new docking adapters arriving this summer. Boeing built the two new docking adapters. Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation-100 and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will use the adapters to deliver astronauts to the space station later this decade," NASA spok...IDA-2 will la...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: "Cable Guys" prepare space station for new docking ports
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Saturday, February 21, 2015. Cable Guys" prepare space station for new docking ports. Astronauts spacewalk to prepare the space station for docking ports. (NASA). The first of three spacewalks to prepare the International Space Station for the arrival of future commercial spacecraft wrapped up on Saturday after astronauts strung new cables in preparation for two new docking ports launching this year. The astronauts will pick back up in a few days, and plan to finish the necessary tasks with a third orbit...
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SpaceLaunch News: Up to the Minute: American-Russian crew to begin historic year in space Friday
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. American-Russian crew to begin historic year in space Friday. Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko pause a week before launch. (NASA). CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - American astronaut Scott J. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are poised to lift-off from western Kazakhstan on Friday en route to begin a historic flight aboard the International Space Station as they spend one full year in space. Russian Valeri Polyakov endured a record 438 days in space on a single mission b...
