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Progress Docks With ISS Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010 
Approach to the space station, its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The initial contact with the docking port on the instrumentation and propulsion compartment of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment (RS) occurred at 07:26 Moscow Time.
The crew of Expedition 22 to ISS working on-board the space station monitored the process of rendezv ... read moreISS Primed For New Era Of Scientific Discoveries 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2010NASA and its international partners are looking forward to unprecedented scientific opportunities aboard the International Space Station, or ISS. With station assembly nearing completion, the ISS Partnership is looking forward to using the station to its fullest capacity. The U.S. administration's fiscal year 2011 budget proposal calls for continuing station operations to at least 2020, wh ... more
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US shuttle to bring Tranquility to space station
Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2010The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts are preparing for a weekend mission to deliver a space module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission comes as NASA begins to reevaluate its future after President Barack Obama effectively abandoned the US space agency's plan to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020. The Constellation progra ... more Russian cargo ship docks with ISS 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2010A Russian cargo ship carrying more than 2.6 tonnes of freight, including DVDs and chocolate, docked Friday with the International Space Station (ISS), the control centre said. Launched from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, the Progress spaceship docked with the ISS at 0426 GMT, said a control centre spokesman, Valery Lyndin, adding that the docking was done automatically. Among t ... more Russia Sends Space Freighter To ISS 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 04, 2010Russia launched on Wednesday a Progress cargo spaceship on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control said. A Soyuz-U carrier rocket carrying the Progress M-04M freighter lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 06:45 Moscow time (03:45 GMT) and is expected to dock with the ISS on February 5. "The launch ... more NASA Provides Inside Look At ISS With Streaming Video 
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2010NASA soon will provide Internet viewers an inside look at astronauts working in space by streaming video live from the International Space Station's laboratories. The internal views are set to begin Feb. 1 and will be available during all crew duty hours. Since March 2009, NASA has provided streaming video online of Earth and the station's exterior as the laboratory complex orbits 220 mile ... more |
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Russian Cosmonauts Take Spacewalk
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 15, 2010Two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station (ISS) began a spacewalk on Thursday, the Mission Control Center outside Moscow said. The spacewalk, started at 01:05 p.m. Moscow time (1005 GMT) and will last for about six hours, is intended to prepare new docking port. Astronauts Maxim Surayev and Oleg Kotov will run cables for the integration of the Poisk study module into ... more ISS Russian Modules To Realize Uninterrupted Ground Comms 
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jan 14, 2010The Russian modules on the International Space Station will realize uninterrupted communications with the ground by 2013, a space industry insider said Wednesday. Russia plans to launch two tracking and data relay satellites - "Luch-5A" and "Luch-5B" - in 2011, said the unnamed expert, adding that a third satellite, "Luch-4," would be launched in 2013. After the three satellites ente ... more How To Live Long And Prosper In Space 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 02, 2010Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe's Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen seems to be particularly happy in open space! Here on Earth, living organisms can be found almost everywhere, from the abysses ... more Obama budget extends US commitment to space station
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010The United States will remain involved in the International Space Station to 2020 "or beyond", the head of the US space agency said as he unveiled President Barack Obama's budget pledge to NASA. Obama's budget announcement that funding to NASA will be hiked six billion dollars over five years was a demonstration of "commitment to extend the life of the International Space Station, likely to ... more |
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