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    Astronauts Excited For First Yearlong Trip to International Space Station

    The two men preparing for the first-ever yearlong mission to the International Space Station are looking forward to the challenge, they said today (Dec. 5).Friends and family are supportive of the mission, said astronaut Scott Kelly , though perhaps none more so than his 9-year-old daughter."When I told her on the phone that I was going to spend a year on the space station , she screamed out, 'Awesome!'" Kelly said today during a press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are due to launch on the yearlong mission in 2015.The flight is designed to help scientists understand how the human body adapts to spaceflight longer than six months, the usual length of stints aboard the space station. [ Most Extreme Human Spaceflight Records ] No one has ever spent a continuous year on the International Space Station (ISS), though four Russian cosmonauts have experienced nearly year-long or longer missions in low-Ear...

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    1. Private Spacecraft Plans First Docking With International Space Station

      Fly me to the moon? Sure thing.Private spaceflight company Space Exploration ( SpaceX ) has received tentative approval from NASA to send its Dragon cargo craft on a...

    2. Space Station Science at a Critical Point, NASA Says

      DENVER — It's time to get serious about science in space, and the International Space Station is the perfect place to start, NASA officials said Tuesday (June 26)."W...

    3. Trick or Treat in Space: Halloween Candy on the Space Station

      When it comes to candy in space, it is not just about Mars bars and Milky Ways.Most of the popular sweets that children, dressed up like astronauts (among their othe...

    4. Shuttle Discovery Docks With International Space Station

      Space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station for the final time at 2:14 p.m. EST Saturday, where it will make a last delivery to the orbiting ...

    5. International Space Station in Jeopardy?

      NASA: Astronauts may have to evacuate ISS by late November

    6. Shuttle Atlantis Docks with International Space Station

      At 11:51 A.M., NASA's space shuttle Atlantis has docked with the International Space Station , 220 miles in the air over Australia and Tasmiania.We're crashing the p...

    7. Historic Mission to International Space Station Confirmed for Private Spacecraft

      Private spaceflight company Space Exploration ( SpaceX ) has received the final go-ahead from NASA to send its Dragon cargo craft on a landmark first mission to the ...

    8. SpaceX Launching Student Experiments and Emblems on 1st Space Station Flight

      Students' science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a U.S. commercial company to send a spacecraft to the Internation...

    9. Farming on Mars? NASA ponders food supply

      The first humans to live on Mars might not identify as astronauts, but farmers. To establish a sustainable settlement on Earth's solar system neighbor, space travele...

    10. First music video ever filmed in space?

      Astronaut living in International Space Station sings Bowie's 'Space Oddity'

    11. First music video filmed in space?

      It's being called the first music video made in space.In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song "Space Oddity" while floating around in...

    12. SpaceX capsule heading to International Space Station

      First commercial cargo ship makes historic launch

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    2. 3-man crew returns safely to Earth from International Space Station

      A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakh...

    3. Russia postpones two manned launches to International Space Station

      Worrisome cracks in its spacecraft have forced Russia to postpone two manned launches to the International Space Station (ISS), the Interfax news agency reported Fri...

    4. Russia Plans to Sink the International Space Station in 2020

      Russia's space agency announced Wednesday that the International Space Station -- a space base the world's scientists and billions of U.S. tax dollars helped build a...

    5. Will International Space Station Be Abandoned?

      NASA has scuttled the shuttles -- and now science may pay the price. With the end of the storied space shuttle program, NASA is forced to rely on Russian spacecraft ...

    6. Russia Backtracks on Plan to Sink International Space Station

      A watery fate may have to wait.Russia 's space agency backpedaled Thursday from an international outcry over comments by deputy head Vitaly Davydov, who said Russia ...

    7. 3-man space crew returns safely to Earth

      A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew from the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan.Canadian astronaut Chris Hadf...

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