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Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Flight [PHOTOS]

The final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, marks the next-to-last flight of the Space Shuttle program. Commander Mark Kelly's wife, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was critically wounded in a January shooting. Kelly resumed training in February for the flight and is hopeful Giffords will be able to...

3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary

"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were...

Astro-Lung: Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson to Duet With Astronaut on International Space Station

Jethro Tull lead singer and flutist Ian Anderson has made some out-of-this-world music, but his upcoming collaboration could be his spaciest concert yet. That's because part of it will be from space itself: The International Space Station, to be specific. On April 12, Anderson will be taking part in a duet with...

Space Shuttle Discovery Touches Down for Last Time

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Discovery ended its career as the world's most flown spaceship Wednesday, returning from orbit for the last time and taking off in a new direction as a museum piece. NASA's oldest shuttle swooped through a mostly clear noontime sky to a touchdown at its home base. "To the ship that has led the way...

Capt. Kirk Wakes Up Space Shuttle Discovery Crew [VIDEO]

It was a perfect blending of science fact and fiction. As the crew of the space shuttle Discovery wiped the dust from their eyes Monday morning, preparing to undock from the International Space Station, they were awakened by a special message from Capt. James T. Kirk, aka William Shatner. With the original 1960s "Star...

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06/01/12 Avengers assemble a private screening aboard the ISS Source: New Zealand City Putting the Hulk in a pressurized container in space isn't a bad idea at all When The Avengers filmed scenes at NASA's Space Power Facility in Ohio, we knew we were seeing a marriage made in heaven.
05/31/12 Private US spacecraft lands in Pacific Ocean Source: New Kerala Dot Com The first private spaceship, the Dragon, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, and landed in the Pacific Ocean.
05/31/12 SpaceX Dragon Returns Safely to Earth Source: Original Signal The Dragon launched on May 22 aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to make its historic rendezvous, successfully docking with the space station on May 25.
05/31/12 Top of the world! Space Station captures the Himalayan... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK The sheer height of the Himalayan plateau - known as the roof of the world - is captured in a spectacular shot taken by one of the keenest photographers on the International Space Station.
05/31/12 A Dragon returns to Earth (Updated: It's live right... Source: DVICE NASA and SpaceX have decided on a time for the latter's Dragon commercial space capsule to return to our planet.

Background on international space station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It follows the Salyut, Almaz, Skylab and Mir stations as the ninth space station to be inhabited.

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