Lord Rees, however, believes that the ISS is not a cost-effective way to do science.
For the past 25 years ISS has been providing proxy research and voting recommendations to shareholders.
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Company management teams often bemoan the influence of ISS and some other proxy advisory firms.
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Investor advisory firm ISS recommended shareholders vote out Lane and two other directors last month.
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But, thanks to ISS-based astronaut Sunita Williams, one we get to use today.
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Dragon must raise itself to the ISS's altitude, which is presently at more than 400km.
If the ISS falls out of the sky, there will be no place to hide.
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It is now on a path to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday.
The other three members of the ISS crew arrived in December and will leave in May.
The ISS is a collaborative project between the Russian, Canadian European, Japanese, and US space agencies.
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We work in air and space with the ISS. We share a lot of successes.
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Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
The ISS-FIT competition program is creating new dietary tracking applications for use by astronauts.
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What is certain is that nobody can fly to the ISS with crew right now.
But the ISS crew complain that their meal monitoring methods are unreliable and tedious.
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Right before the departure, the ISS astronauts thanked the ship's crew, urging them to "stay safe".
Why, then, should ISS adopt a policy that treats them as if they were?
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The ISS marked its 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation on 2 November 2010.
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In March, Mr Hadfield will become the second-ever non-Russian and non-American to lead an ISS crew.
NanoRacks has flown 70 payloads to the ISS and is contracted to fly 80 more.
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The re-boost sets the ISS up for the visit of space shuttle Discovery next month.
Russia should be removed forthwith from the "critical path" of the International Space Station (ISS).
But although the Dragon successfully made it to the ISS, the mission was far from flawless.
The ISS is due to be de-orbited, in the inelegant jargon of the field, in 2020.
So the ISS's value for science and even as a staging post for deep space travel is not clear-cut.
The former is a Melfi (Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS), which can store biological samples.
ISS's national units hope to be able to tailor their efforts to local conditions.
For your question, I'm going to turn it over to ISS Commander Jeff Williams.
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Commander Hadfield believes that the ISS provides the perfect test bed for developing deep space travel capabilities.
Currently, no astronaut is in space for longer than six months on the International Space Station (ISS).
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