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Italian astronaut recounts spacewalk drowning terror
Aug 21, 2013 (AFP)
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano on Wednesday recounted clinging to the International Space Station as he drowned in his spacesuit in the terrifying moments fol...
ISS Boosting Biological Research in Orbit
Aug 14, 2013 (SPX)
Studying the science of biology in microgravity opens a world of possibilities! Research ranges from plant growth to cell growth and from bacterial virulence to...
Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Docks with ISS
Aug 12, 2013 (RIA Novosti)
A Japanese cargo freighter docked with the International Space Station on Friday, NASA said. Nicknamed Kounotori-2 (Japanese for "white stork"), the HTV-4 freig...
Japanese Cargo Craft Captured, Berthed to ISS
Aug 12, 2013 (SPX)
The fourth Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle, or HTV-4 was installed on its berthing port on the Earth-facing side of the International S...
NASA's Firestation on way to ISS
Aug 07, 2013 (SPX)
An experiment to study the effects of lightning flashes on Earth's atmosphere hitched a ride to the International Space Station on Aug. 3, 2013. The Firestation...
NSBRI Wants Ideas To Support Space Crew Health and Performance
Aug 01, 2013 (SPX)
The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) is soliciting for ground-based, analog definition and flight definition research proposals to develop s...
Weekly recap from the International Space Station expedition lead scientist
Jul 31, 2013 (SPX)
The Expedition 36 crew completed packing the Materials International Space Station Experiment-8 (MISSE-8) Payload Experiment Container (PEC) and Optical Reflect...
NASA narrows list of possible culprits in spacesuit water leak
Jul 30, 2013 (UPI)
NASA engineers say they are closing in on the cause of a water leak inside the spacesuit of Italy's first spacewalking astronaut that could have drowned him. NA...
Progress launches to ISS from Baikonur
Jul 29, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
A Soyuz-U rocket carrying a Progress M-20M space freighter lifted off early on Sunday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the ...
Russian supply ship docks with orbiting space station
Jul 28, 2013 (UPI)
An unmanned cargo ship has docked at the International Space Station to deliver nearly 3 tons of supplies, Russia's space agency said. The Progress 52 spacecraf...
ISS Research Exposing the Salty Truth of Supercritical Water Transitions
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
There is a moment when everything changes. Something familiar crosses a boundary and suddenly behaves in new ways. Take water for example. In middle school scie...
Unmanned Russian cargo craft lands in Pacific Ocean
Jul 26, 2013 (UPI)
Fragments of Russia's Progress M-18M spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Friday after the spacecraft re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, officials said. The ...
NASA launches new probe of spacesuit failure
Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)
The US space agency said Tuesday it is launching a second investigation into a leaking helmet that forced an abrupt halt to an Italian astronaut's spacewalk las...
Lockheed provides support services for ISS program
Jul 21, 2013 (UPI)
Mission and flight crew operations support for NASA's International Space Station and future space missions is being supplied by Lockheed Martin. The work comes...
Space Station ARISS Software Upgraded by Student For Students
Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)
Nolan Replogle hasn't yet had the chance to speak with an astronaut, but he would sure like to. And now, thanks in part to the work he did as a NASA intern, oth...
NASA puzzled as astronaut's helmet leak halts spacewalk
Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)
NASA cut short a spacewalk at the International Space Station Tuesday after an Italian astronaut discovered water leaking in his helmet, puzzling engineers as t...
Astronaut's helmet leak forces abrupt end to spacewalk
Jul 16, 2013 (AFP)
An Italian astronaut discovered "funny" tasting water leaking in his helmet during a spacewalk at the International Space Station Tuesday, forcing an early end ...
Luca, the orbital repair man
Jul 15, 2013 (ESA)
Yesterday, at 12:02 GMT, astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk outside the Internatio...
Station Astronauts Complete First of Two July Spacewalks
Jul 10, 2013 (SPX)
Two Expedition 36 astronauts wrapped up a successful 6-hour, 7-minute spacewalk at 2:09 p.m. EDT Tuesday, completing the first of two July excursions to prepare...
ISS technology to 'hear' potential leaks
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
The hiss of air escaping from a leaky car tire is no one's favorite sound. Even less pleasant? Hearing that hiss of escaping air 250 miles above Earth's surface...
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