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No Fruitcake Required
While people on Earth were exchanging cards and fruitcake this holiday season the Expedition 18 crew aboard the International Space Station received similar salutations, except for the fruitcake.
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Station Spacewalkers Install Experiments
International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov wound up a 5-hour, 38-minute spacewalk to install an electromagnetic energy probe and other experiments at 1:29 a.m. EST Tuesday.
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No Shortage of Holiday Calories Aboard Space Station
As the holidays pass aboard the International Space Station, the crew may make Christmas cookies, chocolate covered pecans and candied yams as they celebrate the season.
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A Station Celebration
Ten years ago, NASA and its partner nations began building a dream: the International Space Station
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Progress Docks with Space Station
An unpiloted Progress cargo carrier arrived at the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment Sunday after a four day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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International Space Station 10th Anniversary
By the time the first element launch anniversary rolls around on Nov. 20, the space station will have completed 57,309 orbits of the Earth, a distance of 1,432,725,000 miles.
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Station Prepares for Expanding Crew
Just in time for its 10th anniversary, the space station will get an out-of-this-world home makeover.
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Fincke and Chamitoff Vote From Space
The two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station joined millions of Americans Monday in casting their ballots before Election Day.
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Child's Drawing Will Become the Logo of the Next Soyuz Space Expedition
The Russian Federal Space Agency invites children in Russia and other countries to design a logo for the Soyuz TMA-14 crew.
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Astronauts To Vote From Space
This Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.
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Expedition 17 Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 11:37 p.m. EDT Thursday after more than six months in space.
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Expedition 18 Crew Docks with Space Station
Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-13 to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module at 4:26 a.m. EDT Tuesday.
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Expedition 18 Crew Launches from Baikonur
Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01 a.m. EDT Sunday to begin a six-month stay in space.
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NASA Astronaut Talks With Student Chess Opponents
NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff met his opponents in the ongoing Earth vs. space chess match Thursday, Oct. 9.
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NASA, U.S. Chess Federation to Begin Earth vs. Space Match
It will be the Earth vs. space in a unique chess match, and you can help Earth win.
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Astronaut Greg Chamitoff Answers Your Questions: Week 2
Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, responds to your questions.
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Chess, Live From Space: What's Your Move?
Mission Control, Houston, and astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in orbit aboard the International Space Station, have begun a new game of chess.
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"HOUSTON, WE HAVE CHECKMATE"
For more than a thousand years, the game of chess and its predecessors have been played on park tables, in homes, at schools and, in modern times, even on television and in arenas as a spectator sport.
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Communication From Space Inspires Young Minds
Amateur radio on the International Space Station brings technology, science and inspiration into the classroom.
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Russian Spacewalkers Outfit Station's Exterior
International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko wound up a 5-hour, 54-minute spacewalk after installing one experiment and retrieving another.