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An amazing series of time-lapse sequenced photographs captured by the Expedition 30 crew has been published with commentary in USA Today.
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The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft and its booster were rolled out to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan on Dec. 19, 2011. Preparations for this Wednesday's launching to the International Space Station is set for 7:16 p.m., Kazakhstan time.
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It's official. America has left the space race. Once Endeavour is cleared for launch and its mission completed NASA's shuttle program will be over.
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A private company has today launched a space capsule into orbit. In a move that NASA hope could lead to the first commercial space station supply run. It is hoped supply runs could start as early as next year - and eventually the capsules would be manned.
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Houston -
NASA has announced a delay for Discovery's liftoff to the International Space Station but it's not just the team of six astronauts who are experiencing the three week wait. They will be joined by a Robonaut who will stay packed in a box until launch day.
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The departure of one of the most exciting scientific instruments ever built to the International Space Station (ISS) has been scheduled for 26 August.
European media have been invited to witness this event.
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Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk is returning to Canada Tuesday after a six-month mission at the International Space Station.
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During the spring, comedian Stephen Colbert won the right to have a treadmill named after him on the International Space Station. His $5 million namesake is now on board, ready to be installed.
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The long arm of Stephen Colbert’s comedy reaches all the way to outer space and he got the last laugh on NASA by winning the space agency’s online room-naming contest.
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It was a close call this morning for the three-member crew of the International Space Station when a one-third-inch wide piece of space junk, speeding at 22,000 miles per hour came within 2.8 miles of the orbiting station.
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Crunch time in private rocket race to space station
 Canada has finally committed itself to remaining involved in the International Space Station beyond 2015.
SpaceX private cargo capsule docks at space station: 'We've got us a dragon by the tail'
Europe's ATV space freighter blasts off from Kourou in French Guiana on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.
 For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.
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Astronauts Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin have returned home from the International Space Station, landing at 11:46 p.m. EST Thursday night in Kazakhstan.
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