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Dancing Droplets Rock Out On Space Station
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA has taught more than half a million internet viewers how microgravity affects scientific principles by using ev...
Space Station's Robotic Crew Member Designed to Look, Move and Work Like a Human
May 01, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot, has successfully hitched a ride to the International Space Station. Built for the specific purpose of working on the spac...
Expedition 30 Lands in Kazakhstan
Apr 30, 2012 (SPX)
The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin landed in Kazakhstan Friday...
Russian cargo spacecraft meets demise
Apr 28, 2012 (UPI)
An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft plummeted to Earth Saturday with parts that didn't burn during re-entry plunging into the Pacific Ocean, officials said. Of...
Expedition 30 Crew Returning Home Friday
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
The six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station packed cargo and shifted their sleep schedule Thursday as three Expedition 30 crew memb...
Three astronauts to land from ISS Friday
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
Three astronauts are due to land on Earth Friday after almost six months on board the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian flight control centre said ...
Russia brings three spacemen safely back to Earth
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
Two Russian spacemen and a NASA astronaut touched down safely Friday in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Soyuz capsule after a stay of almost six months aboard the In...
Russian Cargo Craft Launches to Station
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
The unpiloted ISS Progress 47 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:50 a.m. EDT Friday, beginning a two-day journey to the Intern...
Commercial Platform Offers Exposure at ISS
Apr 13, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of the International Space S...
Learn to dock ATV the astronaut way
Apr 12, 2012 (ESA)
Do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? ESA is making actual astronaut training available on your computer and tablet, so you can see for yourself. ESA's ...
Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES)
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) is the first onboard mechanically cooled superconducting mixer and high-resolution system ...
Space Savings for ISS Science Samples
Apr 04, 2012 (SPX)
Efficiency is the name of the game when talking about packing things into small spaces. Anyone who has ever tried to compress an overstuffed suitcase knows that...
Busy first days for ATV Edoardo Amaldi
Apr 04, 2012 (ESA)
Just two days after a flawless docking with the ISS on 29 March, ESA's third ATV has conducted its first 'test' reboost, proving that it is fully integrated wit...
Europe's ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts ISS Orbit
Apr 03, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station's orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control sa...
Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27
Mar 29, 2012 (UPI)
Russia's space agency Roscosmos says the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station will return to Earth April 27. "We have agreed (on)...
Aerojet Propulsion Helps Deliver Astronaut Care Packages
Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)
Aerojet, reports that its engines will be providing the main propulsion for Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) as it maneuvers for a scheduled docking wi...
European cargo vessel docks with space station
Mar 29, 2012 (AFP)
An unmanned European craft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday 2233 GMT, laden with tonnes of fuel, water, oxygen and other supplies,...
Beaming Success for ISS Fans
Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)
Did you ever use a flashlight to send a Morse code message to your neighbor at night as a kid? People like to say hello using lights and it's no different for s...
ESA Cargo Ship Carries Research and Technology Investigations to ISS
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
When the European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with more...
Japan Shares ISS SMILES via Atmospheric Data Distribution
Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)
Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth's atmosphere? The coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, typ...
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