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Spacewalk ends successfully

Spacewalk ends successfully (01:36) NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis....

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This is Earth calling: you're a dad

An astronaut on the space shuttle Atlantis has become a father while in orbit, with his wife back on Earth giving birth to their daughter, NASA says. Astronaut Randy Bresnik, who ventured out on his first spacewalk on Saturday,...

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Shuttle Astronauts Take Time Off in Space

By Clara Moskowitz Staff Writer posted: 22 November 2009 Astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station took some well-deserved time off Sunday to rest up from their mission to stock up the...

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Cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov, First Scientist in Space, Dies at 83

By Robert Z. Pearlman posted: 22 November 2009 A member of the first three-person space crew whose flight was onboard a vehicle he helped design, cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov passed away at age 83 on Saturday, according to a...

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Delayed spacewalk ends successfully

NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk on Saturday at the International Space Station that had been delayed after a false alarm woke the crews of the station and the visiting space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis crewmembers Michael...

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NASA STS-129 Report #11 Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 - 4:30 p.m. CST

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Sunday, November 22, 2009 Source: Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON - It was the second of the three scheduled during Atlantis' visit to the International Space...

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Recap: Doctor Who NSS 1 E 2 The End Of The World

Rose expresses a wish to visit the future, and the Doctor cheerfully obliges... but scorns her idea of a mere hundred years in the future in favour of five billion years. Nothing succeeds like excess! It's the year 5.5/Apple/26...

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Handover ceremony paves the way for launch of final European ISS modules

Twelve years of design, development and hard work have come to fruition with the formal handover of Node 3 from ESA to NASA on 20 November 2009. The ceremony took place in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy...

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LIVE COVERAGE: Astronauts to Tackle Another Cargo Pallet Attachment

Spacewalkers Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik did so well installing a first empty cargo platform on the space station that Mission Controllers decided to have them tackle another, since they are running far ahead of schedule....

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NASA STS-129 Report #09 5 p.m. CST Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

STATUS REPORT Date Released: Friday, November 20, 2009 Source: Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas HOUSTON Preparations for the second spacewalk of Atlantis' STS-129 visit to the International Space...

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