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Exp. 34/35 Launches to the International Space Station

The Soyuz spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 7:12 a.m. EST on Dec. 19. .

End of Greenland Glacier Breaks Away

On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles (251 square kilometers) in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier, along the northwestern coast of Greenland. The glacier lost about one-quarter of its 70-kilometer (40-mile) long floating ice shelf, the Northern Hemisphere’s largest. It’s not unusual for large icebergs to calve off […]

NASA Announces Astronaut Crews for First Commercial Vehicle Flights

NASA announces the men and women who will be on board the first flights of the new spaceships built by Boeing and SpaceX when Americans are once again launched into space from the USA. News release: https://go.nasa.gov/2KoGhVS The nine astronauts targeted to make the first flights on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon […]