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No Fruitcake Required
While people on Earth were exchanging cards and fruitcake this holiday season the Expedition 18 crew aboard the International Space Station received similar salutations, except for the fruitcake.
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No Shortage of Holiday Calories Aboard Space Station
As the holidays pass aboard the International Space Station, the crew may make Christmas cookies, chocolate covered pecans and candied yams as they celebrate the season.
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A Station Celebration
Ten years ago, NASA and its partner nations began building a dream: the International Space Station
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International Space Station 10th Anniversary
By the time the first element launch anniversary rolls around on Nov. 20, the space station will have completed 57,309 orbits of the Earth, a distance of 1,432,725,000 miles.
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Station Prepares for Expanding Crew
Just in time for its 10th anniversary, the space station will get an out-of-this-world home makeover.
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Child's Drawing Will Become the Logo of the Next Soyuz Space Expedition
The Russian Federal Space Agency invites children in Russia and other countries to design a logo for the Soyuz TMA-14 crew.
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Astronauts To Vote From Space
This Nov. 4, few ballots will have traveled as far as those cast by two NASA astronauts.
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NASA Astronaut Talks With Student Chess Opponents
NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff met his opponents in the ongoing Earth vs. space chess match Thursday, Oct. 9.
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NASA, U.S. Chess Federation to Begin Earth vs. Space Match
It will be the Earth vs. space in a unique chess match, and you can help Earth win.
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Astronaut Greg Chamitoff Answers Your Questions: Week 2
Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, responds to your questions.
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Chess, Live From Space: What's Your Move?
Mission Control, Houston, and astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in orbit aboard the International Space Station, have begun a new game of chess.
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"HOUSTON, WE HAVE CHECKMATE"
For more than a thousand years, the game of chess and its predecessors have been played on park tables, in homes, at schools and, in modern times, even on television and in arenas as a spectator sport.
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Communication From Space Inspires Young Minds
Amateur radio on the International Space Station brings technology, science and inspiration into the classroom.
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1968 Science Fiction is Today's Reality
When 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered 40 years ago, living and working in space full time was science fiction.
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Every Day is Earth Day on the Space Station
There may be only one place in the universe which can be the subject of 300,000 and counting photos and still never get old.
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Station Astronaut Throws Ultimate Fastball for Yankees
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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Jules Verne ATV prepares for le voyage extraordinaire
When author Jules Verne imagined in 1865 the story that would become De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon), he envisioned a rocket that would launch people into space using a giant cannon to escape the Earth's gravity.
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Station Partners Win International Cooperation Award
The International Space Station partnership received the 2007 American Astronautical Society award for the advancement of international cooperation in Houston at the society's annual conference Nov. 13-14.
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EuTEF Gives Europe a Platform
The EuTEF platform will allow experiments on the outside of the International Space Station.
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Columbus Poised for Research Breakthroughs
The Columbus laboratory gives European researchers a foothold in orbit.