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Space Station - Why did you become an astronaut?

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VVVVVV | #39;Space Station One #39; time trial - 00:43
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Inside the ISS - Mailbag - Riddle Me This, The Grass is Greener, Flipping Out
NASA astronauts Don Pettit and Mike Massimino answer more questions submitted via Twitter. To find out more about Mike and Don go to http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/...

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International Space Station Flyover- Minneapolis, MN 4/9/2014
Here is a poor-quality video of the ISS passing over my backyard on 4/9/14.

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ISS Space Station pass over Hull
ISS space station passing over Hull on 10th April 2014 21:51 filmed on an iPhone.

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Aliens Space Station
Being the embodiment of technology, Space Station-1 has its work cut out for itself in pleasing tech lovers. Located just next to the city IT hub, Financial ...

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International space station Tour inside the space station ISS

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Aleksandr Misurkin, ROSCOSMOS, Da de la Cosmonutica
Cosmonauta Alexander Misurkin de la agencia ROSCOSMOS, International Space Station ISS Mission 35-36. Da de la Cosmonutica en la UAM, Semana de la Cosmonu...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets will someday be able to land on hydraulic legs, dramatically cutting the cost of sending cargo -- and even human beings -- into space.

When private spaceflight company SpaceX launches its newest mission to the International Space Station it will carry some strange cargo to space.

SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket on Monday on its third official resupply trip to the space station. Liftoff is set for 4:58 p.m. EDT (2058 GMT). Among the 5,000 lbs. of cargo riding aboard Dragon are a set of legs for a robotic astronaut, an experimental mini-farm for space vegetables and a wealth of other odd items.

Here are the five strange things flying to space with Dragon:

A robotic astronaut's legsNASA's humanoid robot Robonaut 2 designed to eventually help astronauts with menial tasks in space is getting space legs for the first time. The long lower limbs are flying to the station with SpaceX, and they will be attached and initially tested in June.

Once attached, Robonaut 2's leg span will reach about 9 feet, and each leg has seven joints. The legs should allow for enough flexibility to let Robonaut 2 work outside and inside the International Space Station, however, the robot's torso will need some upgrades before it can venture outside of the station, NASA officials have said.

The space station's very own laserThe space station is about to get anew laser communications experiment. Called OPALS, NASA's Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science, the new laser will help scientists test ways of transferring information more quickly than traditional radio transmission. The new form of communication could aid in future missions to more distant deep-space destinations.

Many existing deep-space missions send 200 to 400 kilobits of data per second, however, OPALS will up that data rate to a speed of up to 50 megabits per second. Future optical communication designs could reach rates of a gigabit per second.

Microbes collected by cheerleaders and the publicScience Cheerleader a group of science-minded current and former NFL and NBA cheerleaders helped craft an experiment that will take 48 microbe samples swabbed from historical places into space.

Called Project MERCCURI (short for Microbial Ecology Research Combining Citizen and University Researchers), the experiment is designed to help collect more data on how microbes behave in microgravity. Science Cheerleader partnered with SciStarter.com and the University of California, Davis, for the project.

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5 weird things launching into space on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft Monday

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Monday, April 14, 2014 | 9:46 a.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The International Space Station is about to get some fresh groceries and material for an urgent repair job.

An unmanned SpaceX rocket was scheduled to blast off at 4:58 p.m. Monday with more than 2 tons of supplies.

NASA spent much of the weekend debating whether to proceed with the launch of the Dragon cargo ship, already a month late. A critical backup computer failed outside the space station Friday; flight controllers were trying to activate it for a routine software load.

Mission managers decided Sunday to stick with the launch plan after making sure everything would be safe. The prime computer has been working fine so far. The plan is to put the solar wings in the proper position for the capsule's arrival soon after the SpaceX launch, in case of additional failures in orbit.

It's the first breakdown ever of one of these so-called space station MDMs, or multiplexer-demultiplexers, used to route computer commands for a wide variety of systems. Forty-five MDMs are scattered around the orbiting lab. The failed one is located outside and therefore will require spacewalking repairs.

The Dragon capsule holds a gasket-like material for next week's computer replacement. This new material was rushed to the launch site over the weekend.

NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson will perform the job next Tuesday. It will take several days to get the replacement computer ready for installing, thus the one-week wait before the spacewalk, NASA's Kenny Todd, a station operations manager, said Monday.

SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of California is one of two American companies hired by NASA to fill the cargo gap left when the space shuttles retired in 2011. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia is the other.

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