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NASA Selects Five New Flight Directors to Lead Mission Control
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
NASA has selected five new flight directors to manage International Space Station (ISS) operations. Anthony Vareha, Mary Lawrence, Rick Henfling, Timothy Creame...
Space fish detail effects of microgravity on bones
Sep 23, 2015 (UPI)
Medaka fish raised on the International Space Station developed lighter, weaker bones, researchers in Japan report. Previous studies have found the bones of ast...
Fire in the Hole: Studying How Flames Grow in Space
Sep 23, 2015 (SPX)
Understanding how fire spreads in a microgravity environment is critical to the safety of astronauts who live and work in space. And while NASA has conducted st...
US astronaut misses fresh air halfway through year-long mission
Sep 14, 2015 (AFP)
Halfway into a year in space -- the longest ever attempted at the International Space Station -- American astronaut Scott Kelly said Monday he misses fresh air ...
Andreas Mogensen lands after a busy mission on Space Station
Sep 13, 2015 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov landed this morning at 00:51 GMT (02:51 CEST 12 S...
ISS Crew Enjoy Kharcho Soup, Mare's Milk in Orbit
Sep 10, 2015 (Sputnik)
The crew of the International Space Station recently had a chance to enjoy the taste of spicy kharcho soup, mare's milk and two types of curd brought on board b...
Slam dunk for Andreas in space controlling rover on ground
Sep 09, 2015 (ESA)
Putting a round peg in a round hole is not hard for someone standing next to it. But yesterday ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen did this while orbiting 400 km up ...
Russian ISS Crew's Next Spacewalk Planned for February 2016
Sep 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
According to the first deputy general designer of Russia's RSC Energia spacecraft manufacturer, next spacewalk in the Russian ISS program is scheduled for Febru...
Mogensen begins busy ISS tour
Sep 07, 2015 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has arrived at the Internation Space Station after a two-day flight with Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosm...
Soyuz Heads to Space Station with New Crew
Sep 03, 2015 (SPX)
Three crew members representing Russia, Denmark and Kazakhstan have launched to the International Space Station to provide a new ride home for the station's one...
First Dane in space begins long trip to repositioned ISS
Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)
The first Dane in space accompanied by 26 custom-made figurines from Danish toymaker Lego blasted off from Kazakhstan on Wednesday as part of a three-man team o...
Soyuz rocket with three astronauts launches towards ISS
Sep 02, 2015 (AFP)
A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts successfully launched towards the International Space Station on Wednesday.The take off also marked the 500th launch fr...
Astronaut Andreas to try sub-millimetre precision task on Earth from orbit
Aug 31, 2015 (ESA)
Early September will see the very first force-feedback-based teleoperation of a rover-based robotic arm system on Earth from the International Space Station, or...
ISS Crew Redocks Soyuz Spacecraft
Aug 29, 2015 (Sputnik)
The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday successfully performed a manual redocking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, clearing a port for the arr...
CALET docks on the International Space Station
Aug 29, 2015 (SPX)
Five days after it launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on board the HTV-5 Transport Module, operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), th...
Whiskey Delivered to Space Station - For Science Only
Aug 25, 2015 (Sputnik)
Five types of Whiskey were delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). Not for a knees-up astronauts' party, as you might think, but for conducting a co...
Japan's cargo craft delivers supplies, whiskey to space station
Aug 24, 2015 (UPI)
Japan's cargo ship, H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), successfully attached itself to the International Space Station on Monday, August 24, delivery supplies to ISS ...
NASA extends Raytheon contract for facilities that support human spaceflight
Aug 24, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded to Raytheon Company (RTN) a contract extension with a potential value of $101.9 million. Raytheon will continue to provi...
NanoRacks External Platform, CubeSats, Launched to ISS on Japanese HTV-5
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
The NanoRacks External Payload Platform (NREP), and 16 customer CubeSats, were successfully launched to the International Space Station on Wednesday, August 19 ...
Japan sends cargo to International Space Station
Aug 19, 2015 (AFP)
A Japanese rocket blasted off Wednesday carrying emergency supplies in an unmanned cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station. The H-IIB rocket lift...
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