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 Progress 53 Undocks From StationAn unpiloted Russian Progress cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Monday night, completing its second and final undocking from the station since arriving in late November 2013. |  Progress 53 Ready to Leave on MondayThe ISS Progress 53 (53P) cargo craft has been filled with trash and discarded gear. Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev closed the hatches Friday morning and will monitor for leak checks in the afternoon. It will undock from the aft end of the Zvezda service module Monday at 9:30 p.m. MYT and reenter the Earth’s atmosphere a few hours later for a fiery destruction over the Pacific Ocean. |  New Exp. 40/41 Crew Arrived at ISSThree new Expedition 40 crew members were welcomed aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between their Soyuz spacecraft and the station were opened at 11:52 a.m. MYT Thursday. |
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 New Exp. 40/41 Trios Set For LaunchFlight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft at 3:57 a.m. MYT Thursday (1:57 a.m., Kazakh time) to begin a six-hour, four-orbit trek to the space station. |  Expedition 38/39 Touched DownThe Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of Dzhezkazgan at 9:58 a.m. (7:58 a.m. Kazakh time). Helicopters carrying the Russian recovery teams and NASA personnel reached the landing site shortly afterward to assist the crew... |  Expedition 39 Trio Wrapping Up StayCommander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will wrap up 188 days in space when they depart Wednesday aboard the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft that brought them to the station back in November. The trio will undock their Soyuz from the station at 6:36 a.m. MYT for a landing southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 9:58 a.m. |
 Dragon Delivers Science, Supplies ToThe Expedition 39 crew welcomed nearly two and a half tons of supplies and scientific payloads to the International Space Station with the arrival of the third SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo spacecraft Sunday night. |  SpaceX Dragon Heads to SpaceThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at 3:25 a.m. MYT Saturay from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. |  SpaceX CRS-3 Reset For SaturdayThe International Space Station Program and SpaceX have selected Saturday, April 19 for the next launch attempt for the Falcon 9 rocket to send the Dragon cargo craft on the company's third commercial resupply mission to the space station. Launch is scheduled for 3:25 a.m. MYT. NASA TV coverage will begin at 2:15 a.m. |
 Helium Leakage Caused 3rd SpaceX ResTuesday's launch attempt of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, loaded with nearly 5,000 pounds of supplies for the International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew, was scrubbed due to a helium leak on the Falcon 9 first stage. The next launch opportunity would be Saturday, April 19 at 3:25 a.m. MYT if the issue can be resolved. |  Tuesday SpaceX Launch Preps ContinueInternational Space Station Program officials and representatives of SpaceX decided Sunday to continue preparations for the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon cargo craft to the space station Tuesday from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., despite the failure Saturday of a backup computer component that provides redundancy for commanding the Mobile Transporter rail car on the truss of the station. A final decision on whether to launch Dragon Tuesday... | Progress 55 Docks To StationAn express cargo delivery has docked to the International Space Station after just four orbits at 5:14 a.m. MYT Thursday. Nearly 3 tons of food, fuel and gear to replenish Expedition 39 launched aboard an ISS Progress 55 resupply craft at 11:26 p.m. Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
 Progress Departs, New Cargo Ships ToA Russian space freighter filled with trash departed the International Space Station on time Monday at 9:58 p.m. MYT. The ISS Progress 54 will orbit Earth 11 days for engineering tests before finally deorbiting over the Pacific Ocean for a fiery disposal. |  Mars, Earth and Sun Opposition Nxt..Mars will be exactly opposite the sun in the sky in a rare cosmic alignment set to take place Tuesday (April 8). |  Enceladus Hidden Ocean May SupportThe Saturn moon Enceladus harbors a big ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust that may be capable of supporting life as we know it, a new study reports. |
 2014's Stargazing GuideFrom eclipses and planets to meteor showers galore, the northern spring season of 2014 will bring a number of eye-catching celestial sights for stargazers on Earth. |  New Station Crew Members DocksA new trio of Expedition 39 flight engineers has arrived at the International Space Station after a two-day, 34-orbit trip. Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov was at the controls of the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft when it docked automatically to the Poisk docking compartment at 7:53 a.m. MYT. Skvortsov was flanked by Flight Engineers Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev during the two day flight. |  SpaceX Launch Delayed to April FoolsSpaceX has confirmed that Sunday's launch of its third contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has been postponed due to a range asset issue. |
 Soyuz Docking DelayedThe next trio of crew members destined for the International Space Station is now looking forward to a Thursday arrival at the orbiting laboratory after their Soyuz spacecraft was unable to complete its third thruster burn to fine-tune its approach. |  New Exp. 39 Set For Today's LaunchA new Expedition 39 trio waits at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for its launch Tuesday night to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon rocket carrying the Dragon commercial cargo craft awaits its launch planned for Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral, Fla. |  Next Crew Preps For Wednesday LaunchThe International Space Station’s Expedition 39 crew members spent Thursday conducting science experiments and performing routine maintenance to get their orbital home in shape for the arrival of three new crewmates set to launch next Tuesday. The Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Steve Swanson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev is scheduled to lift off at 5:17 p.m. EDT Tuesday. |
 Orion Makes Testing, IntegrationOrion is marching ever closer to its first trip to space on a flight that will set the stage for human exploration of new destinations in the solar system. The Orion team continues to work toward completing the spacecraft to be ready for a launch in September-October. However, the initial timeframe for the launch of Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) has shifted from September-October to early December ... |  Expedition 38 Lands In KazakhstanSoyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Expedition 38 Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy landed in Kazakhstan at 11:24 a.m. MYT. They landed inside the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft ending their mission after five-and-a-half months aboard the International Space Station. |  Expedition 38 Undocks, Landing TodayThe Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft carrying Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Expedition 38 Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy undocked from the Poisk module at 8:02 a.m. MYT. The trio will land about 3-1/2 hours later in Kazakhstan ending their mission after five-and-a-half months aboard the International Space Station. |
 Station's Commander ChangedKotov passed the helm of the station to Wakata during a Change of Command ceremony. Monday’s departure of Kotov, Hopkins and Ryazanskiy will signal the end of Expedition 38 and the beginning of Expedition 39 under the leadership of Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut to command the station. |  Station Crew Preps for ReturnWith less than five days left before half the crew aboard the International Space Station departs, the six astronauts and cosmonauts of Expedition 38 performed maintenance on station systems, conducted research and packed items for the journey back to Earth. |  Final Week For Exp.38 Begins On ISSThe six astronauts and cosmonauts of the International Space Station’s Expedition 38 crew began their final week together Monday with scientific research, maintenance tasks and preparations for the return home of three crewmates after nearly six months in space. |
 GPM LAUNCHEDThe Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), thundered into space at 2:37 a.m. MYT Friday Feb. 28, 2014 (3:37 a.m. JST) from Japan. |  GPM's H-IIA Rocket Rolls Out to theOn Feb. 27 (Japan time) the H-IIA launch vehicle carrying the NASA-JAXA GPM Core Observatory arrived at the Tanegashima Space Center launch pad. The H-IIA, mounted on a mobile launcher, began to roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at 1:04 p.m. JST (Feb. 26 at 11:04 p.m. EST/Feb. 27 at 12:04 a.m. MYT) and arrived at Launch Pad 1 at 1:26 p.m. JST, travelling a distance of about 500 meters. The launch vehicle is now being connected to the pad facilities... |  Sun Unleashed Biggest Solar FlareThe sun fired off a major solar flare late Monday (Feb. 25), making it the most powerful sun eruption of the year so far and one of the strongest in recent years. The massive X4.9-class solar flare erupted from an active sunspot, called AR1990, at 8:49 a.m. MYT (0049 Feb. 25 GMT). |
 First Data Sent Home By UrthecastThe two commercial cameras that will keep a constant watch over Earth from outside the International Space Station have beamed their first bits of test data back home... |  GPM Prepares For LaunchThe Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory is scheduled to launch on Feb. 28 (MYT) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The Core Observatory will link data from a constellation of current and planned satellites to produce next-generation global measurements of rainfall and snowfall from space... |  Curiosity Reverse To Reduce WheelNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has put it in reverse, completing its first-ever long backward drive... |
 Tonight's "Celestial Triangle"If your weather is clear late Wednesday (Feb. 19), take a look at the sky toward the east-southeast horizon to spot a "celestrial triangle" formed by the moon, a bright star and an even brighter planet, Mars. |  Cargo Craft Leaves StationOrbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus spacecraft, which delivered nearly 1,600 kg of supplies and scientific equipment to the International Space Station in January, completed its first commercial cargo mission to the orbiting laboratory Tuesday.. |  Orb-1 Preps For Station DepatureAn unmanned Orbital Sciences cargo ship will depart from the International Space Station on Tuesday at 7:40 p.m. MYT (1140 GMT) to wrap up a successfully debut delivery mission for NASA... |
 Big Dipper Stars Shine Over StargazeThe famed Big Dipper star pattern, part of the iconic bear constellation Ursa Major, pours starlight over a stargazer on the La Palma road to Roque de Los Muchachos in Spain's Canary Islands... |  Mars Rover Heads Uphill AfterResearchers have determined the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity in early January... |  Prehistoric Paint to Shield EuropeanA European spacecraft set to launch toward the sun in 2017 will be protected by a paint once used in prehistoric cave art... |
 LADEE Sends First Images of MoonEarlier this month, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) observatory successfully downlinked images of the moon and stars taken by onboard camera systems, known as star trackers. This is the first time the LADEE team commanded the spacecraft to send these pictures back to Earth. The main job of a star tracker is to snap images of the surrounding star field so that the spacecraft can internally calculate its orientation in space. It completes this task many times per... |  Jupiter's Largest Moon in DetailedMore than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system – Jupiter's moon Ganymede – has finally claimed a spot on the map. A group of scientists led by Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College has produced the first global geologic map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s seventh moon. The map combines the best images obtained during flybys conducted by NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (1979) and Galileo orbiter (1995 to 2003) and is now published by the... |  Cubesats Launched From StationThe world's largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites began taking shape today, as four tiny spacecraft were ejected from the International Space Station. |
 Sochi Winter Olympics Launch with SpThe 22nd Winter Olympic Games were launched in Sochi, Russia on Friday (Feb. 7) using a torch that flew to the International Space Station and back. |  NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Sees 'EvenNew images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover's view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth. |  Olympic Torch Completes Longest RelaAs the XXII Winter Olympic Games begin in Sochi, Russia, the athletes who compete must turn their eyes to the sky to see how far the torch that is lighting the Olympic flame has traveled. |
 NASA Mars Orbiter Examines DramaticSpace rocks hitting Mars excavate fresh craters at a pace of more than 200 per year, but few new Mars scars pack as much visual punch as one seen in a NASA image released today. The image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a crater about 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter at the center of a radial burst painting the surface with a pattern of bright and dark tones... |  New Russian Resupply Spacecraft DockThe ISS Progress 54 resupply spacecraft, loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo, automatically docked to the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment at 6:22 a.m. MYT Thursday about six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |  Sun Emits Mid-Level Solar FlareThe sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, beginning at 12:57 p.m. MYT on Feb. 3, 2014, and peaking in the morning MYT. NASA released images of the flare as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. |
 Curiosity's View of Possible WestwarNASA's Curiosity Mars rover reached the edge of a dune on Jan. 30 and photographed the valley on the other side, to aid assessment of whether to cross the dune. |  Resupply Spacecraft Begins ExpeditedThe ISS Progress 54 resupply spacecraft, loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:23 a.m. MYT Thursday... |  Station Crew Conducts Science WhileWhile awaiting the launch of the next shipment of supplies to the International Space Station, the six-person Expedition 38 crew participated in a.. |
 NASA's MAVEN on way to MarsNASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) space probe thundered to space on Nov. 18 following a flawless blastoff from Cape Canaveral... |  Cargo Craft Departs Clears Way For NThe Expedition 38 crew said farewell to an unpiloted Russian cargo craft Monday morning while making preparations for the arrival of the next space freighter, which is set to make... |  Cygnus Delivers To The ISSOrbital Sciences Corporation successfully launched their Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station on Jan. 9th. With freezing cold and clear … |
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