Dennis Tito, a California tycoon and former NASA rocket scientist, is paying Russia $20 million to tag along with two cosmonauts delivering an Soyuz escape capsule to the orbiting outpost.
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Their 7-ton space capsule will remain at the orbital outpost, and the trio will return in an old Soyuz already docked there. ... The trip angered NASA, the primary space station partner, which argued that Tito's presence could endanger the station crew. Since then, the two space agencies negotiated guidelines for future...
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When the shuttle's seven astronauts joined the six crew members on the orbiting outpost, it marked the largest gathering of humans in space; a gathering that marks just how far the International Space Station program has come. ... nasa's orbiting carbon observatory satellite crashes...
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NASA successfully tested the latest prototype of an emergency rescue boat for the International Space Station on Thursday, just hours after the orbiting outpost received its first tenants.
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Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev opens the hatch to Space Station Alpha and floats inside an hour after the crew docked their Soyuz capsule to the outpost. Image from NASA TV.
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NASA: Canadian space station robotic arm arrives at KSC.; M2 Presswire ; ... Astronauts on the international space station Monday flexed some of the muscles on a robotic arm attached to a new Japanese lab they delivered and helped install on the orbiting outpost.
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lunar, lunar outpost, LunarOutpost, moon, nasa, robot ... Just getting things off this planet requires you fight Earth's gravity, atmospheric pressure, through the hundreds of thousands of objects orbiting the planet, etc.
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...Atlantis and the international space station greeted each...arrived at the orbiting outpost. But...member of the space station's crew...segment to the orbiting ... NASA's space station program manager...to complete the orbiting outpost; the next is targeted...next month. The space station's population temporarily...
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click photo to enlarge THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION is shown on Dec. 9, 2000. Wednesday marked the fifth anniversary of continuous human presence onboard the space station. NASA ; ... People first began living on the orbiting science lab on Nov. 2, 2000, after 16 countries joined to construct it.
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A giant solar wing ripped as it was being unfurled by astronauts aboard the international space station on Tuesday, creating another problem for NASA at the orbiting outpost. ... NASA has a tight schedule to complete construction on the space station by 2010, and this mission was meant to set the stage not only for this year...
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