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Astronaut set to spend one year in space NASA is sending astronaut Scott Kelly to live on the International Space Station for a year. That's the longest any U.S. astronaut has spent in space and twice as long as crew members usually stay on the space station. A year is a long time to stay anyplace. But staying a year in space has some special challenges.
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STS-135 Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center, bringing the Space Shuttle program to an end. Pictured in the STS-135 crew portrait are NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson (center right), commander; Doug Hurley (center left), pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists.
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Scott Kelly (astronaut) He served as Space Shuttle pilot on STS-103 in 1999 and was the Mission Commander on STS-118 in 2007. Following STS-103, Kelly served as NASA’s Director of Operations in Star City, Russia. He served as a backup crewmember.
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NASA: Longest space mission for U.S. astronaut set for 2015 Kelly and Kornienko will depart in spring 2015 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, traveling aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. A native of Orange, New Jersey, Kelly has already experienced more than 180 days in space. On a 1999 space shuttle mission, he was a pilot; in 2007, he was a commander on STS-118.
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Bill Nelson, NASA's Coulda-Been Hero Who Wasn't There was a time when I thought this senator was going to come through. A year ago he and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas supported Sen. John Rockefeller's bill to pump more money into the space program and keep the International Space Station open until 2020. But that was it. That was his whole offense.
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Salyut 1: The First Space Station On June 6, Soyuz 11 transported cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Vokov, and Viktor Patsayev to Salyut 1, where after three hours, they successfully docked with the station. They remained on board for 383 orbits in the course of just over three weeks, setting a new space endurance record.
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- A partnership between European countries (represented by ESA), the United States (NASA), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA) and Russia (Roscosmos), the International Space Station is the world's largest international cooperative programme in science and technology.
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NASA Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the Space Launch System and Commercial Crew vehicles.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly breaks American record for days in space Kelly is scheduled to come down to Earth on March 3, according to NASA, after having totaled 522 days in space. He launched on March 27 from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket along with two cosmonauts. One of the cosmonauts, Mikhail Kornienko, will also stay up for the one-year mission.
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- Expedition 51 crew members Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer pose in front of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft they will launch in April 20. The three Expedition 51 crew members aboard the International Space Station are waiting for a new cargo shipment and a new crew to arrive next week. The orbiting trio are also performing human research and working on U.S. spacesuits. A pair of spaceships are due next week at the space station.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Paramount to this mission was crew member S. Christa McAuliffe-the first Space Shuttle passenger/observer participating in the NASA Teacher in Space Program (cf. [1]). Ms. McAuliffe would have conducted live educational broadcasts from the Shuttle and transmitted them to classrooms throughout the world.
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- Expedition One Crew. (From left) Soyuz Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Expedition One Commander Bill Shepherd and Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev lived and worked aboard the International Space Station for more than four months. Expedition One.
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NASA: Longest space mission for U.S. astronaut set for 2015 Only four humans have logged a continuous year or more in space on a single mission, and all of those missions involved the Russian Mir space station, said NASA spokesman Joshua Buck. The current record is held by Valery Polyakov, who spent 438 days in space between January 1994 and March 1995.
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- — Howard Wolowitz is still in space. The fictional aerospace engineer and Expedition 31 crew member was seen floating aboard the International Space Station (ISS) during last week's season premiere of the CBS hit television series The Big Bang Theory..
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- The first crew of three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, a sixteen-nation project costing around 60 billion dollars. Scientists want to use the ISS to study the long-term effects of prolonged space life on the human body.
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- (Photo: NASA) It’s been 340 days since NASA astronaut Scott Kelly took up residence on the International Space Station (ISS). That’s nearly a year confined to a space no longer than a football field traveling above the Earth in near-zero gravity at 5 miles per second.
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NASA's International Space Station Will Be Visible Tonight Duncan says the crew seemed to be in good spirits and that when Kelly, the only American on the six-person crew, finishes his mission, he will hold the American record for longest time in space. Weather permitting, the station will be visible from Murray in the north-west sky tonight at about 9:19 PM. Observers can check specific location information and sign up for alerts on NASA’s website at spotthestation.nasa.gov.
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Crew. 1  Commander: Rick D. Husband, a U.S. Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96). 2  Pilot: William C. McCool, a U.S. Navy commander.
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- Beginning at 6:15 p.m. EDT today, NASA Television will provide live coverage of the docking of a Russian Progress spacecraft carrying more than three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 45 crew aboard the International Space Station.
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How to Watch SpaceX Launch Private Rocket for NASA Today: 2 Live Webcasts Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann. The private spaceflight company SpaceX is counting down to launch an unmanned space capsule to the International Space Station today (March 1) and you can watch the blastoff live online with two official webcasts.
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- The United States has invested almost $78 billion in the International Space Station (ISS or Station) over the last 21 years, and going forward, NASA plans to spend between $3 and $4 billion annually to maintain and operate the Station, including transportation for crew and cargo.1 In a May 2014 report,
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Astronauts fly to International Space Station in under six hours Astronauts fly to International Space Station in under six hours. Three astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station from Kazakhstan in less than the time it takes to fly from London to New York. A rocket booster carrying the 'Soyuz TMA-08M' spacecraft lifts off from the Cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan Photo: EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY.
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BIBLICAL ASTROLOGY He joined NASA as an astronaut in September 1969 during the Apollo Program. He was on the support crew for the Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. He was the Pilot of the first flight of the Space Shuttle, STS-1, April 12-14, 1981. He was the Commander of three more Shuttle missions in 1983-84.
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International Space Station program In spring 2010, the International Space Station Program Managers from each of the five partner agencies were presented with Aviation Week's Laureate Award in the Space category, and NASA's International Space Station Program was awarded the 2009 Collier Trophy.
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- In two weeks, NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren will step outside the U.S. Quest airlock for the first of two maintenance spacewalks. The International Space Station is also being readied to host the next Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo mission set for early December.
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- Return to the moon. NASA is working towards a return to the moon, scheduled for 2020. The new spacecraft that will take astronauts there will be very similar to the Apollo spacecraft, using giant rockets to lift off from the earth. Four crew members will go to the moon each time, and all four will land and explore.