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Time to Fly: SAGE III - ISS Prepped for Space Station
03.01.11 - After nine years in a clean room, the SAGE III instrument returns to service measuring the Earth's atmosphere and ozone layer.
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Boiling Bubbles are Cool in Space
02.28.11 - It may seem illogical, but boiling is an efficient way to cool engineering components and systems used in extreme space environments.
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ISS Window Observational Research Facility
02.16.11 - Like a human who just went through laser vision correction, the International Space Station (ISS) recently got a clearer view of our world.
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Discovering Discovery's Payloads for STS-133
02.25.11 - Space shuttle Discovery carries not only the STS-133 crewmembers, but also some fascinating research and technology.
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European Cargo Craft Docks with Station
02.24.11 - The European Space Agency’s “Johannes Kepler” Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) automatically docked with the aft end of the International Space Station's Zvezda service module at 10:59 a.m. EST Feb. 24.
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NASA Seeks Non-profit Group for National Lab Research
02.16.11 - NASA seeks a non-profit group to manage space station research under its designation as an official U.S. National Laboratory.
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University of Kentucky Experiments with Radiation
02.16.11 - The University of Kentucky charts the way for university students to perform experiments on the International Space Station.
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Leonardo: Frequently Visited ISS Soon to Be Home
02.23.11 - The new Permanent Multipurpose Module Leonardo should know its way around the International Space Station as it marks its eighth and final visit to the orbiting laboratory.
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Cosmonauts Perform 28th Russian Space Station Spacewalk
02.16.11 - For the second time in less than a month, two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Feb. 16 to install a pair of earthquake and lightning sensing experiments and to retrieve a pair of spacecraft material evaluation panels.
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Astronaut Cady Coleman Shares Her Love of the Flute from Space
02.09.11 - Astronaut Cady Coleman took time during an interview with reporters to play her flute onboard the International Space Station.
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International Partners Discuss Space Station
02.10.11 - NASA and its international partners recently discussed the benefits of research on the International Space Station at an outreach seminar.
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Dextre Successfully Completes Its First Official Job
02.04.11 - Dextre, the Canadian Space Agency’s robotic handyman on the International Space Station, completed its first real job early Friday morning, Feb. 4.
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Crew Attaches Japanese Resupply Vehicle to Station
01.27.11 - Expedition 26 Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli used the station’s robotic arm to attach the unpiloted Japanese Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station.
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Japanese Resupply Vehicle Launches to Station
01.22.11 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the Kounotori2 H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV2) aboard an H-IIB rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan.
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WORF First Image Web Feature
01.21.11 - British Columbia, the first official image taken from the International Space Station's new Window Observational Research Facility, or WORF.
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Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian Station Spacewalk
01.21.11 - Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to retrieve and remove experiments and install new equipment.
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Resupply from Four Corners of Globe
01.18.11 - A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station’s loading docks early in 2011.
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Gardening in Space with HydroTropi
01.14.11 - The HydroTropi experiment aboard the International Space Station has astronauts putting their green thumbs to the test.
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A New Year, a New Era of Utilization
01.10.11 - The new year is here, and along with it a new era of utilization for research and technology begins for the completed International Space Station.
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Students Blaze a Trail for Space Station Research
12.22.10 - Students at Valley Christian High School in San Jose, California are not waiting for the university setting for ignition on their dreams.