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The next three residents of the International Space Station are due to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 10:40 pm U.S. Eastern time on Saturday.
July 13, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
The world's first transatlantic TV broadcast included a quip from President Kennedy and folk dancing in Quebec.
July 10, 2012
| By Rebecca Maksel
The Space Exploration Initiative and the Vision for Space Exploration -- two proposals, two failures. Why?
July 02, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
One of the solar system's most interesting places just got even more interesting.
June 28, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
The start of another lunar cycle, as viewed from Space Station.
June 28, 2012
| By Don Pettit
How to be civilized on the space frontier, Chapter 6: Having company for dinner.
June 27, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The harness we wear to run on a treadmill in space is sort of like a backpack. But the engineering is way more complicated.
June 25, 2012
| By Don Pettit
On Space Station every hour is accounted for, and hardly a minute is wasted. Here's how my day is divided.
June 22, 2012
| By Don Pettit
A Space Station group portrait, taken in thermal infrared.
June 19, 2012
| By Don Pettit
If you want good pictures in space, make it as dark as you can.
June 18, 2012
| By Don Pettit
Here's what we left inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule before we closed the hatch last month.
June 14, 2012
| By Don Pettit
The Southern California birthplace of the space shuttle is going to spit-shine and welcome visitors to see a piece of nearly forgotten aerospace history.
June 14, 2012
| By Heather Goss
The purpose of art is to soothe the soul, but sometimes it can predict future realities with uncanny precision.
June 14, 2012
| By Paul D. Spudis
China's first manned space station mission comes to a successful end.
June 13, 2012
| By Tony Reichhardt
Inside a warehouse in Downey, California, a one-winged space shuttle sits underneath a blanket of Tyvek sheeting.
June 12, 2012
| By Heather Goss
As you can see in this video, right now we are in a phase of continuous twilight.
June 08, 2012
| By Don Pettit
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