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A reminder of the sheer size of the international space station (ISS).
Sometimes, I forget how huge the ISS really is.
That’s…a really cool page, and website as a whole. Darn it, I was going to get work done today!
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
Space shuttle Atlantis is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 23 crew member on the International Space Station soon after the shuttle and station began their post-undocking relative separation. Undocking of the two spacecraft occurred at 10:22 a.m. (CDT) on May 23, 2010, ending a seven-day stay that saw the addition of a new station module, replacement of batteries and resupply of the orbiting outpost.
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Goodluck to Expedition 36/37 en route to the International Space Station (ISS).
Fast-Track to Orbit: Expedition 36/37
A Russian Soyuz capsule launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Glorious Kazakhstan this afternoon, carrying U.S. astronaut (and space veteran/mechanical engineer) Karen Nyberg along with cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian astronauta Luca Parmitano to their rendezvous with the ISS. They will spend a mere six hours catching up with the space station before they dock later tonight, a new pedal-to-the-metal path to orbit recently adopted by ISS-bound craft. In addition to lots and lots of science, the crew of six that will be aboard the ISS will take part in the Winter Olympic torch relay later this year.
Will Karen Nyberg entertain us like Chris Hadfield did with his gorgeous photos and video experiments (and his great Tumblr)? We’ll see. But word on the street is she’s more of a Pinterest fan.
Godspeed, Expedition 36/37. Here’s to six of you being great of behalf of seven billion of us.
P.S. - Howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com is correctly showing “6”, in case you’re wondering.
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Commander Chris Hadfield on acclimatizing to gravity after his stink aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…. ( EDITOR: This is not the commanders twitter account, but a parody account. His real account is Cmdr_hadfield. Funny though).
Astronaut problems.
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Commander Chris Hadfield performing aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Simply superb!
Another look at life in space. This time how a candle burns aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
A comparison between the combustion of a candle on Earth (left) and in a microgravity environment, such as that found on the ISS.
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Photos of Saturdays EVA to repair the coolant leak onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Photos from Saturday’s emergency spacewalk on the ISS
The spacewalk outside the International Space Station was captured on film by the tweeting, Facebooking, social media maven and space station commander Chris Hadfield. “Amazing day,” he said. “EVA went off without a hitch. Great crew, phenomenal ground support and a supportive audience. Who could ask for anything more?”
Image credits: NASA/CSA/Chris Hadfield
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Our daily Shuttle magnificence!
Top: Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir on 4 July 1995. Cosmonauts Anatoliy Y. Solovyev and Nikolai M. Budarin, who had arrive onboard Atlantis five days earlier, took Soyuz TM-21 for a fly-around photo survey prior to Atlantis undocking for her return to Earth. This was the first time a shuttle had docked with Mir.
Bottom: Two shots of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, as photographed by the departing Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft on 23 May 2011, during the STS-134 mission. (There are a lot more from this fly-around here)
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In another glimpse into life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Chris Hadfield shows how Neutron radiation is detected aboard.
Radi-N2: Detecting Neutron Radiation on the ISS
Neutron radiation is a serious hazard and challenge for human space exploration. To better understand the levels in low-Earth orbit, CSA Astronaut Chris Hadfield is taking part in a Canadian/Russian experiment that uses bubble detectors to measure the neutron radiation levels on board the ISS.
Credit: CSA
