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Russian, US astronauts dock with ISS: officialMoscow (AFP) June 18, 2010 A Russian space ship carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts on Friday docked successfully with the International Space Station, mission control officials said. The Soyuz-FG rocket, which blasted off Wednesday for the ISS, carried Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock who opened the airlocks some two hours after docking. The Vesti-24 television channel showed the new arrivals heartily hugging the station's current crew and smiling. ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2010A Russian space ship carrying a Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts on Friday docked successfully with the International Space Station, mission control officials said. The Soyuz-FG rocket, which blasted off Wednesday for the ISS, carried Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock. The team is expected to conduct several scientific tests, ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 17, 2010Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with colleagues, have discovered a much higher water content in the Moon's interior than previous studies. Their research suggests that the water, which is a component of the lunar rocks, was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the Moon began to form some 4.5 billion years ago, and that it is likely widespread ... more  
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2010Researchers have recovered a spacecraft in Australia that returned to Earth following a long journey that saw it touch down on a distant asteroid. Planetary Science Institute research scientist Paul Abell was part of the mission's ground recovery operation. He was also a member of the mission's near infrared spectrometer team that investigated the composition of the asteroid while the Hayb ... more |
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New ISS Crew Members Prepare For DockingHouston TX (SPX) Jun 17, 2010 Three new Expedition 24 crew members continued their voyage aboard the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:35 p.m. EDT Tuesday. Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin executed another rendezvous burn and tested the docking systems of the Soyuz TMA-19 Wednesday to prepare for docking to the aft port of the station's Zvezda service module at 6:25 p.m. Thursday. Fellow Expedition ... read more |
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