Subsequent Shenzhou missions are expected to focus on building a space station.
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In August, a Soyuz failure on a mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
For the rest of Thursday, ground controllers plan to send Dragon on a wide loop around the space station, maintaining a separation of several miles as the spacecraft zips above and then falls behind the station.
Such a sum would barely buy you a sandwich on the international space station, but to Nigerians, it sounds a lot, and many are wondering if the money is being wisely spent.
Little Kirobo is pencilled in to enjoy a spell on the space station sometime after summer 2013.
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When attitude -- or position -- control is lost on a structure like the space station, it begins to tumble.
The experiment travelled to the International Space Station on a Soyuz in October of 2011.
The frontier of biomedical research is inside an unassuming green box with a black-and-white touchscreen mounted on a rack in the International Space Station.
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That could happen about five years from now, perhaps using a laser on the International Space Station to transmit solar power collected by its panels to Earth.
In August, a Soyuz failure on an unmanned mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
For a country that put a man on the moon and ran a taxi service to the International Space Station, this is not rocket science!
He'll then spend over a week orbiting Earth on the space station.
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
Moscow (CNN) -- The Russian space agency on Monday postponed the launch of a new manned mission to the International Space Station due to last week's accident in which an unmanned cargo craft was lost, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
It is now on a path to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday.
This includes a completely different propulsion system, larger solar panels, and also the orbital module (which is designed to function on its own, as a sort of space station, for six to eight months).
After a series of tests on Saturday, NASA cleared Dragon for approach to the International Space Station, only a day late.
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The three crewmembers were in space for a total of 167 days, of which 165 were spent on the International Space Station.
Following the retirement of the American space shuttle in July, the Soyuz rocket is the only means of getting astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS. August's failure saw manned flights stand down even longer than the six weeks for unmanned Soyuz rockets, and the hiatus put a severe strain on the operation of the space station.
There was always the risk that when the US shuttles were retired, continued operations on the International Space Station (ISS) could be left more vulnerable should there be a failure on the Russian Soyuz rocket system.
In a video interview with TopCoder, NASA astronaut Donald Petit, who lived on the space station for 13 months, explains some of the obstacles posed by life in space for such a tool.
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On June 16, China sent three astronauts into space on its first manned docking mission, a significant step towards its plan to build a Chinese space station in 2020.
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His spaceship company, Blue Origin, is working on a vehicle that would transport astronauts to the international space station.
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The agency has released software that makes use of the cameras on the Parrot drone to simulate docking with a virtual space station.
On Saturday afternoon, NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn successfully completed a spacewalk to repair a leaky component on the outside of the International Space Station.
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Contestants will be tasked to work with different sets of imagery from NASA's lab on earth and on the Space Station, as well as in a simulator.
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"We were really happy to take part in delivering Expedition Three to orbit and they're having a great mission right now up there on the space station, " Horowitz told reporters after inspecting Discovery with fellow shuttle crewmembers Rick Sturckow, Dan Barry and Pat Forrester.
The Russians also are preparing to launch a Progress supply ship to the space station on Tuesday.
Pizza Hut plans this month to put its 30-foot logo on a Russian Proton rocket that will zoom to the International Space Station.
He had it easy: His mission was always pretty clear: Save the earth from a space-station-based lunatic bent on replacing humanity with supermodels, and so on.
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