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1. Tools Get Loose During ISS Spacewalk

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   A Russian spacewalker works outside the Pirs docking compartment after beginning the first Expedition 24 spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV Two Expedition 24 cosmonauts conducted a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk ... Tuesday, 27 July 2010

2. Symbol of Cooperation

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   ... English text, while the Soviet side is red with Russian text. Image Credit: NASA ... Thursday, 15 July 2010

3. Roy S. Estess

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   ... for Logistics and Procurement, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia; Expedition 3 commander Frank Culbertson; and Expedition 3 flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Vladimir N. Dezhurov. ... Sunday, 27 June 2010

4. Rachmaninoff on Mercury

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   ... name honors the Russian composer, pianist and conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). IAU names craters on Mercury after "deceased artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding ... Wednesday, 23 June 2010

5. Stunning Sunrise and Aurora, As Seen from the Space Station

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   ... International Space Station, as seen from the Russian MRM1 Module. We're blessed with 16 sunrises each day!" Wheelock, a.k.a Astro_Wheels wrote. See below for an aurora he captured over the ... Sunday, 20 June 2010

6. Video Tour of the Mars500 Habitat

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   ... On June 3, 2010 Urbina and five fellow crewmates from Europe, Russia and China embarked on a 520-day mock mission to Mars, and are living in a crew module in a warehouse in Moscow. See our preview article ... Friday, 18 June 2010

7. Unusual Views of the Soyuz Rocket

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   'Up, up the long delirious burning blue...' View from the Soyuz flame trench by 'Astro_Wheels,' astronaut Douglas Wheelock. Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut will launch to the International ... Tuesday, 15 June 2010

8. Preparing for Liftoff

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   ... Walker and Doug Wheelock, and Russian Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin is scheduled for 5:35 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 15. Image Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi ... Sunday, 13 June 2010

9. Russia To Test Launch New Spacecraft From Baikonur In 2015

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   Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2010 - Russia will test launch a new spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in 2015, the head of the manned space program at Russia's Federal Space Agency ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

10. Proton-M With Arabsat-5 telecoms Satellite Blasts Off From Baikonur

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    Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2010 - Russia's Proton-M launch vehicle powered by the Breeze-M upper stage blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakstan on Friday to orbit the Arabsat-5 ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

11. 18-Month Mars500 Mission Has Begun

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    Moscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010 - Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

12. Crew Embarks on 520-Day Mock Mission to Mars

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    Mars500 crew just seconds before ingressing their module for a 520 day stay. Credit: ESA Six men from Europe, Russia and China embarked on a 520-day mock mission to Mars, heading out to a crew module ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

13. SpaceX Hopeful For Successful Flight Test of Falcon 9

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    ... flight probably has a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of succeeding. "However, I should point out that is less than the probability of success in Russian roulette," Musk said. "Remember ... Thursday, 03 June 2010

14. Six men to brave 520-day isolation on 'Mars mission'

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    Moscow (AFP) June 3, 2010 - Six men from Europe, Russia and China will on Thursday be voluntarily locked away in a module for almost one and a half years to simulate the psychological effects of a mission ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

15. Russia Needs Long-Term Space Strategy To Remain Cosmic Superpower

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    Washington DC (RIA Novosti) Jun 03, 2010 - Russia needs a long-term space strategy, otherwise it may lose its leadership in the space exploration sphere, Russian cosmonaut and former politician Yury ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

16. Rockot Launches Japanese SERVIS-2 Satellite

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    Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 - We announce the successful launch of the SERVIS-2 satellite at 01.59 h UTC from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia using a ROCKOT launch vehicle. The spacecraft ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

17. Baikonur Turns 55

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    Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 03, 2010 - Baikonur, the world famous launch pad from where the first Soviet and world cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was sent to space has turned 55 years. It was here that ... Wednesday, 02 June 2010

18. China May Become Space Station Partner

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    ... Russia, ESA's 11 member countries, Canada, Japan and Brazil. China is excluded from the ISS. But with growing power based on its independent technological development, China is being invited to more ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010

19. 520 Days On A Simulated Flight To Mars

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    ... the universities of Erlangen and Bonn. When the hatch closes on 3 June, the six-person crew from Russia, Europe and China will set out on their simulated 520-day journey to the Red Planet. For their ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010

20. Russian spacecraft with astronauts lands: mission control

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    Moscow (AFP) June 2, 2010 - A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian cosmonaut, a US astronaut and a Japanese astronaut has landed in Kazakhstan, a mission control official in Moscow said Wednesday. Russian ... Tuesday, 01 June 2010