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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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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Dec 3, 9:48 am ET
Washington - The International Space Station narrowly missed colliding with a speeding piece of space junk, the US space agency NASA reported. The remains of a Russian Cosmos satellite measuring 10 centimetres in diameter flew within less than a ki...
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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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SPACE.com - Wed Dec 2, 6:18 pm ET
Space officials in Europe and Japan are considering plans to build and launch additional indigenous cargo ships to the International Space Station if the program is extended beyond 2015.
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The Vail Trail - Thu Dec 3, 1:48 am ET
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - This Vail Valley photo of the International Space Station was taken from Avon's Wildridge neighborhood on Thursday at 6:14 p.m. In the scene is the trace of the International Space Station. Look closely at the right side of the trace and you can see the lighter trace made by the Space Shuttle, which was traveling behind it in almost the same track. Zooming in will show ...
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Fox News - Wed Dec 2, 9:01 am ET
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave, NASA officials said.
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The Bay Area Citizen - Thu Dec 3, 2:15 am ET
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.
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SpaceRef - Wed Dec 2, 3:28 pm ET
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station. These "butterflynauts" are part of an educational experiment that was launched Nov. 16 on space shuttle Atlantis and transferred to the Space Station.
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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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ABC 4 Salt Lake City - Wed Dec 2, 7:50 pm ET
MIDVALE, Utah (ABC 4 News) – Children at an elementary school on Wednesday morning had the opportunity to talk to astronauts. Students at Midvalley Elementary spoke to the astronauts on the International Space Station by radio. The school applied for the program through NASA two years ago and had the high-powered radio equipment installed. For many students, particularly for 6th grader Nick Fife ...
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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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CNN - Tue Dec 1, 4:04 pm ET
A piece of space debris is not expected to pose any danger to the two crew members aboard the international space station, a NASA spokesman said Tuesday.
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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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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 9:28 am ET
Astronauts from Canada and Belgium and a Russian cosmonaut landed safely on the Kazakhstan steppes on Tuesday following a six-month stint on the International Space Station.