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SpaceRef - Tue Dec 8, 12:28 am ET
NASA Television will air the events surrounding the launch and delivery of the next three residents to the ISS. Coverage begins with a broadcast of prelaunch activities Dec. 8, and continues through the crew's arrival to the orbiting laboratory Dec. 22.
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FOX 4 Kansas City - Mon Dec 7, 7:07 pm ET
Some kids are getting an interactive lesson about space thanks to some butterflies from KU. The butterflies hitched a ride to the International Space Station where scientists will study how zero gravity affects the insects.
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FOX Springfield - Mon Dec 7, 5:36 pm ET
Want to know what beer from space tastes like? The Japanese beer company Sapporo has created 250 six-packs of beer made from barley grown on the International Space Station.
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UPI - Mon Dec 7, 5:28 pm ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- NASA says it's celebrating the 10th anniversary of people continuously living aboard the International Space Station by offering a special 2010 calendar.
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redOrbit - Mon Dec 7, 5:06 pm ET
Image Caption: The MISSE 7 experiment on the Express Logistics Carrier 2 of the International Space Station was photographed by a space-walking STS-129 astronaut during the mission's third and final session of extravehicular activity (EVA). This is the latest in a series of experiments that expose materials and composite samples to space for several months before they are returned for experts to ...
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EurekAlert! - Mon Dec 7, 2:42 pm ET
( Naval Research Laboratory ) The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory, launched aboard STS-129 for transport to the International Space Station.
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The Western Courier - Mon Dec 7, 1:10 pm ET
Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the starship nothing? I might not be a Star Trek fan, but even I can notice the distinct lack of any kind of space travel these days. We send a couple of shuttles out to the space station now and then, or launch a few more satellites, but that's it.
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Universe Today - Mon Dec 7, 10:28 am ET
Four “butterflynauts” have emerged on the International Space Station. They are part of a suitcase sized educational experiment that was rocketed to space on Nov. 16 on space shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-129 mission. Students of all ages and the public are invited to follow the tiny crew’s development from larvae [...]
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UPI - Mon Dec 7, 9:58 am ET
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- NASA says it will televise the launch of a Soyuz spacecraft and its delivery of the next three residents to the International Space Station.
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socalTech.com - Mon Dec 7, 8:53 am ET
Hawthorne-based SpaceX, the commercial spacecraft startup started by Elon Musk, reported Thursday that it has hosted its first preliminary training for NASA astronauts, in preparation for the firm's first delivery of payload to the International Space Station. SpaceX said that it hosted a group of NASA astronauts and personnel at its headquarters in Hawthorne in October, covering interfacing the ...
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Spaceflight Now - Mon Dec 7, 2:16 am ET
NASA and the Italian Space Agency are planning to strip the Leonardo cargo module of unnecessary parts and beef up shielding to equip the barrel-shaped spacecraft for a permanent stay at the International Space Station.
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Sparta Expositor - Mon Dec 7, 1:25 am ET
Seven Northfield Elementary School students, including Mackenzie Burton, Angelle Howard, Dalton Stallings, Bethany Tripp, Logan Sims, Riley Whiteaker and Alissa England, were selected from a multitude of submissions to receive invitations to a communications downlink with astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Discovery Channel - Sun Dec 6, 1:58 pm ET
With the departure last week of European Space Agency astronaut Frank DeWinne, Canada’s Bob Thirsk and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, life aboard the International Space Station has gotten a whole lot quieter. Until a new crew arrives on Dec. 23, ...
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SPACE.com via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 9:45 pm ET
Skywatchers in Florida have two chances to spot the International Space Station fly high overhead in the next week.
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The Huffington Post - Sat Dec 5, 3:28 pm ET
What's Your Reaction? The University of Kansas and Bioserve Technologies decided to send some monarch butterfly larvae to the International Space Station, provide them with microgravity (the nearest thing to feeling weightless) and see whether or not the caterpillars would become butterflies.