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Nasa Signs $490 Million ISS Travel Contract with Russia

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NASA will have to depend on Russian spacecraft for its missions once again. The space exploration organization is renewing its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency. The purpose of this...

Watch Soyuz Bring Back Three Astronauts From ISS Live

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Astronauts of Expedition 43 Terry Virts and his crew mates Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti, have started their return to Earth from the International Space Station after a month of rocket...

ISS Astronauts Returning to Earth After Spacecraft Glitch

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An aircraft Soyuz has been docked at the ISS and is due to bring back three astronauts this week. However on Wednesday the Soyuz had a glitch in which the engine of the spacecraft started by itself...

ISS Pushed Off Orbit by Soyuz Engine

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The astronauts at the ISS had to endure a scary incident. A docked Soyuz spacecraft has accidentally pushed the ISS off its orbit. Russian Space Agency Roscosmos issued a statement detailing the...

Russian Soyus Docks with ISS after delay

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arriving fashionably late, a Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts docked with the International Space Station Thursday evening 250 miles over Brazil. The crew aboard the...

Astronaut Abby to Attend Soyuz Launch

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High School Sophomore and Astronaut-in-Training, Abigail Harrison (Abby), will be the only American teenager in attendance at the Russian Soyuz launch, Soyuz-TMA-09M, in Kazakhstan on May 28, 2013....