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RE: International Space Station

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The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft carrying the Expedition 24 crew has docked with the ISS at 22:25 UT, 17th June, 2010.

-- Edited by Blobrana on Thursday 17th of June 2010 11:32:14 PM

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Space Station keeps watch on world's sea traffic

As the ISS circles Earth, it has begun tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An experiment hosted by ESA's Columbus module is testing the viability of monitoring global traffic from the Stations orbit hundreds of kilometres up.
The ship-detection system under test is based around the Automatic Identification System (AIS), the marine equivalent of the air traffic control system.
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TLE Data

    ISS
    1 25544U 98067A   10144.55147307  .00016717  00000-0  10270-3 0  9009
    2 25544  51.6468 351.8551 0010914 348.6984  11.3932 15.74228635 19751

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Astronauts Michael Good and Garrett Reisman have completed their final STS-132 spacewalk at 18:13 GMT.
The spacewalk lasted 6 hours, 46 minutes.

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The 12 crew members aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 5:25 a.m. CDT on Sunday, May 23.
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Astronauts have succeeded in attaching a new Russian module to the International Space Station (ISS).
The 7m-long unit known as Rassvet was put in place in a delicate manoeuvre by the platform's robotic arm.
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Shuttle test rack offers way to compare gravity's effect on melted materials

Wearing a wide smile, Cleveland State University researcher Dr. Surendra Tewari was watching here Tuesday as European and NASA scientists removed the core of a test cylinder flown aboard the International Space Station last year.
A NASA official called the test, which was the first American materials science experiment on a new shuttle test rack, "historic," and a crowd of about two dozen gathered in a Marshall Space Flight Centre laboratory to watch the cylinder being opened.
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Heads of Agency International Space Station Joint Statement

The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation.
With the assembly of the ISS nearing completion and the capability to support a full-time crew of six established, they noted the outstanding opportunities now offered by the ISS for on-orbit research and for discovery including the operation and management of the world's largest international space complex.
The heads of agency reaffirmed the importance of full exploitation of the station's scientific, engineering, utilisation, and education potential. They noted that there are no identified technical constraints to continuing ISS operations beyond the current planning horizon of 2015 to at least 2020, and that the partnership is currently working to certify on-orbit elements through 2028.
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A lesson from space: capillarity in action

In space, many things work differently, but not always. Take the movement of liquid in fine tubes. Gravity has something to do with this capillary action, but what? Students using ESAs 'Take Your Classroom into Space' kit can now find out.
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