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Station Astronaut Throws Ultimate Fastball for Yankees
04.14.08 - Astronaut Garrett Reisman has thrown the ultimate fastball for the New York Yankees, a pitch that clocked in at better than five miles a second.
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Expedition 17 Crew Docks with Space Station
04.09.08 - Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-12 with the orbiting laboratory at 8:57 a.m. EDT Thursday, marking the beginning of their six-month stay aboard.
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Expedition 17 Crew Launches from Baikonur
04.08.08 - Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday to begin a six-month stay in space.
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Testing Materials in Space
09.17.09 - The Materials Science Research Rack allows researchers to study a variety of materials in space to improve performance on Earth.
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Eight Years of Success!
09.10.09 - The results are in: the first eight years of International Space Station science are a success.
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MISSE-6 Comes Home
09.02.09 - Several hundred materials samples returned to Earth with the STS-128 space shuttle crew.
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Astronauts Getting to the Heart of the Matter
07.14.09 - A new study aboard the International Space Station will examine changes in astronaut hearts during six months in space.
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ATV Jules Verne Docks with Station
04.03.08 - The Jules Verne, the first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, docked to the aft port of the International Space Station's Zvezda Service Module at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday.
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Astronauts Collect Blood, Other Samples for Unprecedented Immune Study
02.25.08 - The Integrated Immune experiment monitors the human immune system before, during and after spaceflight.
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Progress Docks to Space Station
02.07.08 - A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment Thursday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water, propellant and other supplies and equipment aboard.
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Spacewalkers Replace Solar Wing Motor
01.30.08 - Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani replaced a motor at the base of one of the International Space Station's solar wings during a 7-hour, 10-minute spacewalk that ended at 12:06 p.m. EST Wednesday.
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Greetings from Earth Brighten Station Crew's Holidays
12.21.07 - More than 6,000 greetings had been sent to the Expedition 16 crew of the International Space Station through a link on the nasa.gov home page by Friday afternoon, and the number continued to grow at an increasing rate.
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Progress Docks to Space Station
12.26.07 - A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment Wednesday with almost 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard.
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Spacewalkers Find No Solar Wing Smoking Gun
12.18.07 - Expedition 16 astronauts Dan Tani and Peggy Whitson wrapped up a 6-hour, 56-minute spacewalk focused on International Space Station solar array issues at 11:46 a.m. EST Tuesday.
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Spacewalkers Complete More Harmony Hookup Work
11.24.07 - International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani completed a 7-hour, 4-minute spacewalk at 11:54 a.m. EST Saturday, continuing the external outfitting of the Harmony node in its new position in front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny.
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Spacewalkers Harmonize on Node Hookup Tasks
11.20.07 - Expedition 16 crew members conducted a spacewalk to outfit the Harmony node in its new position in front of the U.S laboratory Destiny.
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Harmony Moved to Front of Space Station
11.14.07 - The new Harmony node is now in position to receive the European and Japanese modules to be added to the International Space Station.
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PMA-2 Move Readies Station for Harmony Relocation
11.12.07 - International Space Station crew members moved Pressurized Mating Adapter-2 from the front of the U.S. laboratory Destiny to the Harmony node early Monday.
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Station Spacewalk Prepares for PMA, Harmony Moves
A successful 6-hour, 55-minute spacewalk to prepare for the relocation of Pressurized Mating Adapter 2 and the subsequent move of the new Harmony node to its permanent International Space Station home ended at 10:49 a.m. EST Friday.
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Swapping Sweat for Water
09.13.07 - NASA tests how to supply drinking water to people living on the moon or Mars.
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