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Countdown: German astronaut Alexander Gerst leaves Earth for the ISS

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May 26, 2014: final hours before lift-off

It's getting serious: Alexander Gerst is ready for his trip into space. And it's just hours to go. Everything is ready at Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Alex and his team take off in a Soyuz rocket on Wednesday (28.05.2014) at 9.56 pm Central European Summer Time.

The crew will be catapulted into space with 26 million horsepower, costing 300 tons of fuel. It should take them around six hours to reach their goal.

May 23, 2014: 6,000 hours of training

It's been four and a half years since Alex was selected to be an astronaut for the European Space Agency (ESA). In that time he has

gone through 3,000 hours of ESA training, undergone medical exams, participated in PR events and

spent 3,000 hours at the ISS partner countries' training centers in the US, Canada, Russia and Japan.

Gerst has also flown about 400,000 kilometers (249,000 miles), which equals almost 500 flights to the ISS and back.

But that's nothing compared to what awaits him during his real mission. Here's what Alex writes in his blog:

"On board the ISS, we will travel almost double the distance that I have traveled over the last four years - every day! In the space of 24 hours, we'll experience 16 sundowns and sunrises. I can't wait!"

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Microgravity, the future of innovation – Ioana Cozmuta (SETITalks) – Video

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Microgravity, the future of innovation - Ioana Cozmuta (SETITalks)
Speaker: Ioana Cozmuta The International Space Station is a US taxpayers investment estimated at about $70 billion spent over 30 years (with an overall price tag of $100 billion by all member...

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Flight International Space Station 22.05.2014 time 03.31 Poland – Video

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Flight International Space Station over the Polish 23/05/2014 – 02.42 – Video

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Russia develops manned space program to replace ISS

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Russia is developing a national program of manned space explorations which will replace the International Space Station (ISS) program after 2020, the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said Thursday.

"The development of the national strategy of manned spaceflight is underway now. Along with the Russian Academy of Sciences and the industrial sector we are preparing a certain concept beyond the ISS," Roscosmos Deputy Chief Sergei Savelyev told reporters at the 18th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

China and the European Space Agency, he added, were seen as the potential partners in the new strategy, but the key role will belong to Russia.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who is in charge of space and defense sectors, said earlier in the week that Moscow had no plans to extend the operation of the ISS beyond 2020, though the United States had proposed to extend ISS cooperation after that year.

On Tuesday, Rogozin also threatened that from June 1 Moscow would shut down 11 U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) base stations on Russian territory in response to Washington's anti-Russia sanctions and its refusal to plant Russian Glonass ground base stations on U.S. territory.

Meanwhile, Roscosmos plans to resume talks over the placement of Glonass stations in the United States over the next few weeks, Savelyev said.

"I think it will happen in the very near future, over the next two or three weeks ... It would still give us a chance to walk away from the unpleasant situation over sanctions and continue cooperation," the Interfax news agency quoted the official as saying.

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Slowdive – Souvlaki Space Station (Live @ Village Underground, London, 19/05/14) – Video

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Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station (Live @ Village Underground, London, 19/05/14)
Slowdive performing "Souvlaki Space Station" live at Village Underground, London on May 19th, 2014. All rights reserved to the artist. No copyright infringem...

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Students in Control of Space Station Robots: Katie Magrane at TEDxLowell – Video

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Students in Control of Space Station Robots: Katie Magrane at TEDxLowell
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