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March 22, 2013

New Space Station Crew Members to Launch and Dock the Same Day
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 22, 2013
Three new crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station on a six-hour flight to travel from the launch pad to their destination. Chris Cassidy of NASA, along with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:43 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 28, (2:43 a.m. March 29 Baikonur time). Live coverage on NASA Television begins at 2:30 p.m. Cassidy, V ... read more

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CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

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NASA's next Mars mission invites public to come aboard

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NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

Amazon's Bezos recovers Apollo 11 engines

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