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New Trio Welcomed Aboard Station, Gets to WorkHouston TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2011 Expedition 29 has expanded to six crew members. NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin docked the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft to the Poisk mini-research module at 12:24 a.m. EST Wednesday. They are scheduled to live in space until March. Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov welcomed their new crewmates when the hatches were opened at 2:39 a.m. After a welcoming ceremony with mission officials ... read more |
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  Yinghuo Was Worth It The loss of Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission has shocked the spaceflight community. There's been plenty of attention placed on this high-profile mission, but relatively little coverage of its piggyback ... more | .. |
 Soyuz TMA-22 manned transportation spacecraft launched towards ISS In accordance with the mission plan of the International Space Station (ISS) and Russian commitments under this international project, a manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-22 was launched fr ... more | .. |
  Aborted Mars probe jeopardizes Russia's long-range space program On Thursday, November 10, mission control tried unsuccessfully to communicate with the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos Ground) probe which lifted off November 8. Analysts are in no mood to exaggerate the situa ... more | .. |
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  Contact with Russian Mars probe 'unlikely' - expert The Phobos-Grunt unmanned spacecraft cannot be controlled at a low-Earth orbit, where it is currently stuck, because of its design features, a Russian space expert said on Saturday. The Mars p ... more | .. |
 U.S. institute wraps up data collection in Russian Mars 520-day mission simulation For the past 17 months, researchers with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) collected data to evaluate the impact of prolonged operational confinement on the sleep, performance ... more | .. |
 Russian probe fails to set course to Mars A robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos launched early on Wednesday has failed to reach a flying orbit after separation from the launch vehicle, the head of Russia's Federal Space Agency said. ... more | .. |
 Congress and NASA: expedite commercial crew The end of the Space Shuttle program this summer caused the US to voluntarily give up its capability to put our own astronauts into orbit. By doing so before a new human spaceflight launch system is ... more |
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  Russia set to launch Proton-M carrier rocket with 3 Glonass-M satellites Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched on Thursday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency (Rosco ... more | .. |
 New Supply Ship Arrives, Departure Preps and Science Under Way A new Russian resupply craft arrived at the International Space Station at 7:41 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The ISS Progress 45 docked to the Pirs docking compartment after a trip to the station that began ... more | .. |
 Russian space freighter docks with orbital station The Russian Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft docked on Wednesday in an automatic regime with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's Mission Control said. The space freighter delivered ... more | .. |
 Progress Successfully Docks With ISS On October 30, 2011, at 6:11 EDT, Progress 45 spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This is not normally a major event, but it was on this occasion. In fact, Bill Gersten ... more |
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 Russian Progress space freighter undocks from ISS Russia's unmanned Progress M-10M spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday for its return to Earth. The freighter detached from the platform at about 13:04 Mos ... more | .. |
 Station Crew Prepares For Progress Departure and New Arrivals The Expedition 29 crew members living and working aboard the International Space Station made preparations for the departure and arrivals of a series of visiting Russian spacecraft and continued the ... more | .. |
  The Arianespace launcher family comes together in French Guiana Arianespace's full launcher family is now an operational reality as flight-ready versions of all three vehicles - Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega - are together at the Spaceport for the first time, positio ... more | .. |
  German scientists ready for the hunt on dark energy The German and Russian partners of the new eROSITA X-ray space observatory have now agreed on how to split the data from the first four years of an all sky survey. This decision was announced ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Russian Space Agency names next crew to ISS The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed on Monday the list of next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 14. Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft will bri ... more | .. |
 Russia to launch four Glonass satellites in November Russia is planning to add four Glonass navigation satellites to its orbital grouping in November. Three Glonass-M satellites will be launched on November 4 aboard a Proton-M carrier rocket fro ... more | .. |
 One Soyuz launcher, two Galileo satellites, three successes for Europe The first pair of satellites for Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been lofted into orbit by the first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Gui ... more | .. |
 ISS orbit readjusted by 3 km The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) has been raised by 3.1 km (1.9 miles), a spokesman for Russia's Mission Control said. The maneuver was carried out late on Wednesday using th ... more |
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 Mars Rover Carries Device for Underground Scouting An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path. "If we conclude that there is something unusu ... more | .. |
 ISS could be used for satellite assembly until 2028 The service life of the International Space Station (ISS) may be extended until 2028, a Russian space official said on Tuesday. The service life of the ISS ends in 2015 but participants of the proje ... more | .. |
 Expedition 30 to ISS could be launched on Dec 21 This year's last launch of a manned spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) could come on December 21, a Russian space official said on Tuesday. The launch of the Soyuz TMA-03M pil ... more | .. |
  Lunar Probe to search for water on Moon Russian scientists at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have chosen six venues for landing the Luna-Glob probe. With the launch of the probe in 2014, Russia will resume ... more |
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 Russian scientists want to join Europe's ExoMars mission Russian scientists want to join European Space Agency's ExoMars (Exobiology on Mars) mission to study the Red Planet, a leading Russian space researcher said. "From the scientific point of vie ... more | .. |
  Space industry workers' negligence caused Russian spacecraft loss Negligence by space industry enterprises' employees was the reason for the loss of an Express AM-4 telecommunications satellite and Progress M-12M space freighter earlier this year, Russian Prosecut ... more | .. |
 Soyuz is put through its paces for Thursday's launch A full dress rehearsal for Arianespace's first Soyuz flight from French Guiana was performed today, validating the mission from countdown to spacecraft separation in preparation for this Russian-bui ... more | .. |
 While the US Stalls, Europe Moves On to Mars The European Space Agency (ESA) seems to have gotten tired of waiting for NASA to commit to its share of the joint 2016/2018 Mars missions that were planned to lay the groundwork for an eventual del ... more |
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 Soyuz ready with Galileo satellites for milestone launch International space cooperation will be highlighted in a historic event on 20 October: the launch of Europe's first Galileo navigation satellites on Russia's first Soyuz rocket to depart from Europe ... more | .. |
 Russia puts off building of AK-T space laboratory Russia has postponed the building of the AK-T space laboratory due to lack of scientific projects the station has been designed for, a Russian space agency official said Friday. The project wo ... more | .. |
  A living species of aquatic beetle found in 20-million-year-old sediments The fossil beetle discovered in the 16-23 million years old sediments of the Irtysh River in southern Siberia belongs to the modern species Helophorus sibiricus, a member of the water scavenger beet ... more | .. |
 Russian Space objectives Russia plans to carry out an unmanned lunar flight before 2050, head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Vladimir Popovkin said. Speaking at a State Duma session, he emphasized that further research ... more |
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