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NASA TV Coverage Set for May 23 Space Station Contingency Spacewalk

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer are preparing for an unscheduled spacewalk outside the International Space Station Tuesday, May 23.
Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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NASA TV Coverage Set for 200th Spacewalk at International Space Station

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer will perform a landmark 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, May 12. Live coverage will begin at 6:30 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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Science record set on Space Station

If anything should break in space, let it be records. The astronauts of Expedition 50 have done just that by setting a new record for most time spent on scientific research on the International Space Station.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, and cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, Andrei Borisenko and Sergei Ryzhikov clocked a combined 99 hours of science in the week of 6 March.
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Cut-back crew for ISS launch

There was an empty third seat on the Soyuz capsule which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Nasa astronaut Jack Fischer, 43, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, 58, lifted off at 1:13pm local time (0713 GMT).
But Russia is scaling back its staff on the ISS until a long-delayed space laboratory is sent to the outpost in 2018.
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NASA TV to Broadcast Cargo Ship Departure from Space Station

Six weeks after delivering more than 4.5 tons of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station, an unpiloted Japanese cargo spacecraft is scheduled to depart the station Friday, Jan. 27. Live coverage of the departure will begin at 10 a.m. EST on NASA Television and the agency's website.
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Tim Peake and Nasa astronaut Tim Kopra will spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on 15 January to replace a failed voltage regulator. The spacewalk is scheduled to start at 12:55 GMT and last for six-and-a-half hours.

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International Space Station Panoramic Tour

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International Space Station Partners Adjust Spacecraft Schedule

NASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for spacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station.
The partner agencies agreed to adjust the schedule after hearing the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) preliminary findings on the recent loss of the Progress 59 cargo craft. The exact dates have not yet been established, but will be announced in the coming weeks. Roscosmos expects to provide an update about the Progress 59 investigation on Friday, May 22.
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Astronauts carry out spacewalk to prepare ISS for upgrade

Two astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) have been working on upgrading the ISS.
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