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Astronaut Releases Time Lapse From 166 Days Spent At International Space Station
The six minute video is made up from 2500 images that European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst took while working at the ISS. (12/29/14)

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Happy New Year - International Space Station Message
Expedition 42 New Year #39;s Message.

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Video: NASA astronaut assembles robonaut humanoid robot
NASA astronaut Terry Virts is shown setting up Robonaut, a humanoid robot developed by the Robotics Laboratory at NASA????s Johnson Space Center, on board the International Space Station....

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Alien Isolation (Nightmare) Part 2
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Alien Isolation (Nightmare) Part 3
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Earth From Space - January 2nd-3rd 2015 - Live Views From the International Space Station
Earth From Space - January 2nd-3rd 2015 - Live Views From the International Space Station.

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Russian cosmonaut Boris Morukov, a physician who visited the International Space Station and led a 520-day simulated Mars mission, died Thursday (Jan 1). He was 64.

Boris Morukov's death was reported by the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP), where he served as the deputy director of science since 2006. A cause of death was not given.

"Morukov will forever remain in our hearts as a talented scientist, brilliant organizer and kind, sympathetic person," IBMP officials said in a statement.

Selected in January 1989 with the fifth group of Russian doctors to train as research cosmonauts, Morukov made his only spaceflight in September 2000 onboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis. As an STS-106 mission specialist, Morukov helped to outfit the International Space Station's Russian-built Zvezda service module in preparation for the arrival of the outpost's first expedition crew later that same year.

During the flight, Morukov was tasked with unloading more than 1,300 lbs. (600 kilograms) of supplies that were earlier launched onboard a Russian Progress cargo ship. He also assisted with moving equipment from the shuttle Atlantis to the space station. [Giant Leaps: Biggest Milestones of Human Spaceflight]

As part of that work, Morukov and NASA astronaut Daniel Burbank resorted to using a hammer and chisel to remove some rivets holding a floor bracket in the Russian Zarya functional cargo block (FGB). Finally freeing the panel, the cosmonaut and astronaut were then able to replace a unit controlling the flow of current from one of the module's six batteries.

One of only two flown Russian cosmonauts to never fly on a Russian spacecraft, Morukov logged a total of 11 days, 19 hours and 10 minutes in space. He remained an active cosmonaut for seven years after returning to Earth, retiring from the corps in November 2007.

Boris Vladimirovich Morukov was born on Oct. 1, 1950 in Moscow. He received his doctorate of medicine from the Second Moscow Medical Institute (now Moscow Medical University) in 1973, he received a Ph.D. in space, aviation and naval medicine six years later.

Morokuv joined the IBMP as a researcher in 1978, where he provided medical support for crewed space missions. From 1979 to 1980, he worked as a staff member in the TsUP Mission Control Center, supporting the cosmonauts working onboard the Russian space station Salyut 6.

Morukov's medical research at IBMP primarily focused on the crew members' metabolic changes in the microgravity environment of space. To that end, he organized a series of experiments, including a 370-day study dedicated to the testing of an experimental countermeasure to the negative effects of spaceflight.

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NASA wants a humanoid robot that can perform CPR, draw blood and operate on astronauts aboard the International Space Station or en route to Mars.

A doctor at the Houston Methodist Research Institute is working to make that happen.

The humanoid robot, Robonaut, developed by NASA, is in training at the Houston Methodist Research Institute to perform medical procedures in space -- someday. (Photo: NASA)

"We're trying to get the best care for our astronauts, who are risking their lives to push the boundaries in space," said Dr. Zsolt Garami, an instructor at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, an arm of Houston Methodist Hospital. "Our motivation was really when we saw astronauts perform ultrasounds on each other or on themselves. They just could use an extra hand.... Why not have a robot help? There's already a robot up in the space station, and he's already shown that he can switch buttons reliably. Why not make him a nurse or a physician?"

Garami is working with NASA to teach robots how to perform medical procedures. He said the robots are quick learners -- much quicker than his human students.

Robonaut, the robot Garami is working with, learned in two hours what humans take a week to learn. That hasn't been a popular observation with his colleagues.

"Robonaut is learning extremely fast," he told Computerworld. "His motions, without shaky hands, are very precise and gentle. There were no sudden motions."

The humanoid robot that Garami is working with is a twin to Robonaut 2, or R2, which was brought to the space station early in 2011.

It took about 11 years to build the 300-lb. robot, which runs on 38 PowerPC processors, including 36 embedded chips that control its joints. Each of the embedded processors communicates with the main chip in the robot.

Garami said he hasn't yet worked with Robonaut 2 on the space station, but he is confident that the space-dwelling robot won't have any trouble. His work with Robonaut on the ground has gone extremely well.

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Scalpel. Check. Robot. Check. NASA bots, one day, may operate in space