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In preparation for their return to Earth, International Space Station Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, bid farewell to the Expedition 42 crew, who will continue the important research being conducted aboard the station. […]

Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency landed safely near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on June 11, Kazakh time, after bidding farewell to the Expedition 44 crew members and undocking their Soyuz TMA-15M […]

On Sept. 6, NASA previewed the science of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security – Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission, during a pre-launch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OSIRIS-REx – the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid is targeted to launch Sept. 8 at 7:05 p.m. ET to […]

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency discussed life and work on the orbital laboratory during an in-flight question and answer session April 22 with students involved in the Canadian National Film Board’s Space School, an exciting new website that teaches kids about space, science, technology and […]