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ISS crew ready for spacewalk after 'serious' ammonia leak
May 10, 2013 (AFP)
The International Space Station crew Friday were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious" leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's pow...
ISS crew ready for spacewalk after 'serious' ammonia leak
May 10, 2013 (AFP)
The International Space Station crew Friday were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious' leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's pow...
The fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle is ready to meet up with its Ariane 5
May 10, 2013 (ESA)
Fueling has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana for Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), readying it for a planned June launch with Ar...
NASA to pay Russia $424 mln more for lift into space
May 01, 2013 (AFP)
NASA said Tuesday it will pay $424 million more to Russia for giving US astronauts a lift to the International Space Station. The hefty bill includes the traini...
NASA Extends Crew Flight Contract with Russian Space Agency
May 01, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the Inter...
Cargo spaceship docks with ISS despite antenna mishap
Apr 26, 2013 (AFP)
An unmanned cargo vehicle on Friday successfully docked with the International Space Station, in a delicate manoeuvre after its navigation antenna failed to pro...
ISS Communications Test Bed Checks Out; Experiments Begin
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) test bed has begun its experiments after completing its checkout on the International Space Station. The SCaN ...
Astronaut shares incredible spacewalk selfie
Apr 24, 2013 (UPI)
Move over, Ellen. Rich Mastracchio has snapped the selfie to end all selfies. The NASA astronaut was out on a spacewalk with crew member Steve Swanson to replac...
Spacewalkers Deploy Plasma Experiment, Install Navigational Aid
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Two members of the Expedition 35 crew wrapped up a 6-hour, 38 minute spacewalk at 4:41 p.m. EDT Friday to deploy and retrieve several science experiments on the...
The New and Improved ISS Facilities Brochure
Apr 23, 2013 (SPX)
Inquiring research minds want to know...what resources are available on this orbiting laboratory we keep hearing about? Wonder no more, science community and sp...
Full tank, please For ATV Einstein
Apr 22, 2013 (ESA)
A fuelling operator at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana inspects progress as ATV Albert Einstein is filled with propellant to take to the International Space...
Cosmonaut becomes oldest person to walk in space, Russia ministry says
Apr 20, 2013 (UPI)
A 59-year-old cosmonaut became the oldest person to walk in space when he installed equipment outside the International Space Station, Russian officials said. P...
Russia puts mice, newts in space for a month
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long orbital mission that shou...
Mice crew of the Russian space satellite having troubles
Apr 19, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The "Crew" of "Bion-M", spacecraft consisting of the mice was partially replaced a day before the launch. According information from the source at the Baikonur ...
UH Engineering Researcher's Theories to be Tested Aboard ISS
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
A University of Houston chemical and biomolecular engineering professor's theories on crystal formation will be tested aboard the International Space Station (I...
Unmanned Russian space freighter leaves space station toward fiery end
Apr 15, 2013 (UPI)
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station early Monday, making way for the next Russian space freighter, NASA said. The ISS Prog...
Europe sets June 5 for launch of space freighter
Apr 11, 2013 (AFP)
The European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday announced it would launch the fourth, and heaviest, in a series of hi-tech cargo vehicles to the International Space...
Spooky action at a distance aboard the ISS
Apr 09, 2013 (SPX)
Albert Einstein famously described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at distance"; however, up until now experiments that examine this peculiar aspect of p...
First data released from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Apr 05, 2013 (SPX)
The first published results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a major physics experiment operating on the International Space Station, were announced ...
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Team Publishes First Findings
Apr 04, 2013 (SPX)
Until the launch of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment in 2011, scientists had compiled a mere anthill of information about the kinds of charged p...
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