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From Backpacking to Space Trekking
06.14.11 - NASA to test water purification method for long-duration space exploration.
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Keeping Cool With Heat Pipes on the Space Station
06.14.11 - How do you keep electronic and computer components from overheating in space?
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Spiders in Space -- Live!
06.08.11 - Ever since they were announced, the spiders in space have been living in the limelight.
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Rocket Rock: Soyuz Crew Gets a Sendoff Song from ZZ Top
06.07.11 - A celebratory toast, an Orthodox Russian priest blessing, and a salute are a few trademarks of a Soyuz launch. This time cheap sunglasses, long beards and an iconic guitar also made their way to the rocket pad.
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The Calm After the STORRM
06.06.11 - After much work and anticipation, STORRM, or Sensor Test for Orion Relative Navigation Risk Mitigation, was successfully demonstrated during Endeavour’s recent mission to the International Space Station.
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Station Crew Launches Aboard Soyuz
06.07.11 - Three new Expedition 28 flight engineers bound for the International Space Station launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 7.
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Space Station Technology Benefits Fine Art
06.01.11 - If art is in the eye of the beholder, then space aficionados may hail the International Space Station as a technological masterpiece.
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Students Fly Investigations to the Space Station
05.25.11 - In today's classroom, students have the opportunity to take their lessons to a whole new stratosphere.
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Expedition 27 Crew Returns Home
05.23.11 - After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 27 landed May 23, 2011.
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Timeline: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Launch
05.19.11 - The AMS will be the most advanced charge particle detector flown in space, increasing our knowledge of antimatter and dark matter.
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New Experiments Headed to Station
05.16.11 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launched to the International Space Station on May 16, carrying with it a mix of research to be performed.
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Producing Water on the Space Station
05.12.11 - Potable water is one of the primary and most important assets for human survival, and stowage in space comes at a premium.
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Spiders in Space – The Sequel!
04.29.11 - The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters.
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Burning Fuel in Space, Saving Fuel on Earth?
04.20.11 - The price of gas is skyrocketing, but thankfully so is a potential mitigation.
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Contingency Planning for Preserving Samples
04.11.11 - Preserving samples aboard the International Space Station is critical because refrigeration repair companies don't make house calls in space.
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First Space-Earth Duet
04.08.11 - Harmony reached new heights recently as NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman, circling Earth aboard the International Space Station, and musician Ian Anderson, founder of the rock band Jethro Tull, joined together for the first space-Earth duet.
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Students Get Fit the Astronaut Way
03.21.11 - Mission X uses the same skills used to train astronauts to motivate physical education for students around the globe.
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Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies
03.21.11 - Astronaut Fred Haise was a long way from home when he became sick with an infection caused by an opportunistic pathogen known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Expedition 26 Returns Home
03.16.11 - The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft carrying Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka landed at 3:54 a.m. EDT Wednesday, March 16 on the steppe of Kazakhstan, near Arkalyk.
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The Marangoni Effect: A Fluid Phenom
03.10.11 - Observing wine in a glass is a good way to see and understand a surface-tension experiment being performed in space.
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