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With Sergei Volkov (center) commanding the return to Earth, One-Year crewman Scott Kelly (left) and Mikhail Kornienko will wrap up the longest single space mission of the 21st century next week. Photo Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/Twitter Scott Kelly has certainly been waxing lyrical recently, as he wraps up the last couple of percent of his […] The current Expedition 45 crew of the International Space Station (ISS) comprises (from left) Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov, Mikhail Kornienko, Kjell Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui. Photo Credit: NASA With the International Space Station (ISS) now back at six-person strength, following last weekâs return to Earth of Soyuz TMA-16M […] Soyuz TMA-16M approaches the International Space Station (ISS) on 26/27 March, as viewed by Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts. After five months attached to the station, Soyuz TMA-16M and its crew of Gennadi Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, and Scott Kelly will perform a relocation flyabout tomorrow. Photo Credit: Terry Virts/NASA/Twitter After five months in a […] Passing their 100th day in space in the first week of March, the Soyuz TMA-15M crew of (from left) Terry Virts, Samantha Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov could hardly have imagined that they would remain aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for up to 200 days. Photo Credit: NASA NASA and its International Partners (IPs) […] Scott Kelly participates in a Soyuz spacecraft training session, ahead of his scheduled 27/28 March launch with Gennadi Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko. Photo Credit: NASA Twenty-four hours now remain before Soyuz TMA-16M is scheduled to rocket toward the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Russian cosmonauts Gennadi Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko and U.S. astronaut Scott […] The Soyuz TMA-16M crew, scheduled to launch on 27 March 2015, includes Gennadi Padalka (center), who will become the world space endurance record-holder by the end of his six-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Flanking him are the two year-long crew members, Scott Kelly (left) and Mikhail Kornienko, who will catapult themselves […] Andreas Mogensen undergoes EVA training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo Credit: ESA In a historic announcement Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed that Denmarkâs first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, will fly a short-duration mission to the International Space Station in late 2015. He is expected to serve as a flight […] |
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 The Cassini mission has come to an end and and the spacecraft is to be de-orbited and crashed into Saturn. Click here for updates.     Close-up View of Neutron Star Mission's X-Ray Concentrator Optics  A new NASA mission, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is headed for the International Space Station to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. In this photo, NICER’s X-ray concentrator optics are inspected for dust and foreign object debris that could impair functionality once in space. Read More 
 
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