International Space Station
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Press Releases
South Carolina Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut on Space Station
Students at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, near Charleston, will speak with a NASA astronaut living, working and doing research aboard the International Space Station at 11:30 a.m. EDT Monday, Oct. 2. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Expedition 53 Commander Col. Randy Bresnik is a member of The Citadel class of 1989. He will answer questions from…
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Briefing, NASA Television Coverage Set for Upcoming US Spacewalks
Three American astronauts aboard the International Space Station will embark on a trio of spacewalks in October to perform station maintenance. NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of the spacewalks, as well as a briefing to discuss the work to be performed. The briefing to preview the spacewalks, extravehicular activities (EVAs) 44, 45 and 46, will air at…
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Vice President Pence Visits NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Makes First White House-level Call to Space Station Crew from Center Vice President Mike Pence offered his thanks Monday to employees working on NASA’s human spaceflight programs during a tour of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Vice President saw the progress being made on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS), the world’s most powerful deep space rocket, that…
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Three New Crew Members Arrive at International Space Station
After a six-hour flight, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Joe Acaba and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos arrived at the International Space Station at 10:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 12, where they will continue important scientific research. The three crewmates launched aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:17 p.m. (3:17 a.m. Baikonur time Wednesday), orbited Earth four times, and docked…
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Minnesota Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut on International Space Station
Less than a week after arriving on the International Space Station, Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei will speak with students from the Pine River-Backus Schools in Pine River, Minnesota, at 10:40 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 18. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Vande Hei will answer questions from kindergarten to 12th -grade…
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