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RE: ISS

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Nations around the world will join together to mark a milestone in space exploration this week, celebrating the 10th birthday of a unique research laboratory, the International Space Station.
Now the largest spacecraft ever built, the orbital assembly of the space station began with the launch from Kazakhstan of its first bus-sized component, Zarya, on Nov. 20, 1998. The launch began an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication.

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Three U.S. firms are preparing to submit final bids for a pair of NASA space station cargo services contract worth up to $3.1 billion through 2015

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Students speak with Austinite in space
Mayor Will Wynn and three lucky AISD high school students got a galactic experience Wednesday, talking with video game mogul and now astronaut Richard Garriott aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 200 miles above the Earth.

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A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday.
The TMA-13 capsule automatically latched onto the station a few minutes ahead of schedule, two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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The space shuttle takes off weighing about 120 tons, filled with fuel, science gear, computers and, in the most recent journey, a compass from the Museum of Science and Industry.
Not that the crew of the STS-124 could use it: A compass picks up the Earth's magnetic forces to always point north.

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Glitch forces station into survival mode
Signal relayer trouble on the Russian side of the International Space Station put the outpost in survival mode Friday as critical systems automatically shut down until the problem could be sorted out.
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To make matters worse, the toilet in Russia's command-and-control module broke down, forcing the crew to rely on a privy in a Soyuz spacecraft now serving as an emergency escape vehicle.

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The master bathroom for three astronauts aboard the international space station is on the fritz again, just days before a trio of new spacefliers are due to launch toward the orbiting lab, NASA officials said Friday.
A temporary telemetry glitch also sent the space station into a so-called survival mode earlier this morning, changing the orbiting outpost's attitude and leading to system power downs for several hours. That issue was quickly tracked to an electronics box aboard the station, but the balky space toilet in the Russian Zvezda service module continues to plague astronauts and flight controllers.

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NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff will meet his opponents in the ongoing Earth vs. space chess match Thursday, Oct. 9. At 1:05 p.m. CDT, NASA Television will broadcast the live linkup with Chamitoff, who lives aboard the International Space Station, and his competitors from the Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue, Wash.

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The orbit of the International Space Station was successfully raised on Saturday to avoid space debris.

"The engine of the Progress M-65 ship was fired for 282 seconds. The average height of the ISS orbit has been increased by 1.25 km to become approximately 353 km" - Mission Control spokesman.