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GoldFish Subscriber Space Station Part 6 – Communications Network – KSP #116 – Video

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ISS Expedition 36 Space Station Live With Kounotori HTV-4 CArgo Craft Release, September 4, 2013 – Video

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UFO Spotted Near Nasa's International Space Station [VIDEO]

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UFO Sighting at NASA's International Space Station. Image Credit: YouTube/Streetcap1

Two unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were spotted near Nasas International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.

The UFOs are believed to be visible on a live video feed from the ISS camera, which maintains a 24-hour feed.

UStream says, "Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. The video is accompanied by audio of conversations between the crew and Mission Control. This video is only available when the space station is in contact with the ground."

The sighting was made by UFO enthusiast and blogger Scott C Waring, who wroteon his blog: This UFO must be huge, because the space station itself is 109 meters across and 73 meters wide, and in comparison with the space station and the distance we can assume the smaller of the UFOs is about 5-10 meters and the longer UFO is about 20-25 meters.

Also note in the video that the astronaut asks about the interval between the photos taken from the live cam on the ISS, as he hints at the UFO being there without actually saying so, he added.

One of two videos of the sighting has been uploaded on YouTube.

Check out the video here: [Video Courtesy: YouTube/Streetcap1]

Earlier this week, hundreds of baseball fans were left baffled when a UFO was spotted during a minor league game. The match was taking place at the Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver, Canada.

The sighting, which brought luck for the Vancouver Canadians (the eventual winners of the match), came towards the start of the sixth innings and also got viewers tweeting photos of the unusual object with glowing lights. No explanation for the sighting has been made.

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Costs of Space Station Freedom, House Government Operations Committee, May 1, 1991 – Video

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Costs of Space Station Freedom, House Government Operations Committee, May 1, 1991
On May 1, 1991, the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Activities and Transportation held a hearing titled, "Costs of Space Station Freed...

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Cosmonaut due to command space station resigns for 'better job'

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Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, seen here on board the International Space Station in 2008, resigned from the Russian federal space agency, despite being assigned to a 2015 mission.

A veteran Russian cosmonaut who was assigned to command the International Space Station in 2015 has unexpectedly resigned.

Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov tendered his resignation to the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, on Thursday. Russian news agencies, quoting the head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, reported Lonchakov will be "formally discharged" on Sept. 14.

"He came and told me that he had found a better job than working in space," Sergei Krikalev, the training center's chief and the current record holder for most time in space by any human, told the Interfax news service. "Frankly, we were counting on him because he was not just in the unit, (but) he was assigned to a crew." [Quiz: Do You Know the International Space Station?]

Lonchakov was scheduled to fly as the commander of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M, launching in March 2015 with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, the space station's first two yearlong crew members.

Once on board the orbiting laboratory, Lonchakov was set to join the Expedition 43 crew as a flight engineer before taking over command of the space station as the leader of Expedition 44 in May 2015. He was then to return to Earth in October 2015.

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Astronaut Reveals 'Lucky Charm' Floating on Space Station

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An astronaut working onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has revealed his "lucky charm" a miniature toy astronaut figurine in a video recently sent down to Earth.

"I was going through personal things [that] I have flown for people and came across my own personal item I'd like to share with everybody," NASA astronaut and Expedition 36 flight engineer Chris Cassidy said in the video, which was released online Wednesday (Sept. 4). "This little astronaut guy has seen better days but he has special meaning."

In the video, Cassidy holds up and lets float the 3-inch-tall (7.6 centimeters) toy, which was sculpted to appear to be wearing the same type of spacesuit that Cassidy has worn on spacewalks outside the space station.

"Before I was selected as an astronaut, I knew I wanted to become one and I somehow came across this guy in a toy set for my kids, or something like that," Cassidy recalled.

Flying to the space station is just the latest adventure for the plastic figure, Cassidy said.

As a Navy SEAL, Cassidy was deployed on four 6-month missions, including being sent to Afghanistan two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"I took him with me to Afghanistan every time and he was always in my pocket on every mission that I did," Cassidy said from aboard the space station.

Cassidy was chosen to join NASA's ranks in 2004 with the agency's 19th group of astronaut candidates.

"When I was selected to become an astronaut, I felt like [the figurine] was a good luck charm, so he has been with me every step of the way," Cassidy said. "He often flies in T-38 [training jets] with me and various other places. I just leave him in the pocket of my flight suit and I often kind of forget that he is there."

"It [also] flew on the space shuttle," Cassidy, who made his first visit to the space station on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission in 2009, added.

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Russian Quits Space Station

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A veteran Russian cosmonaut who was assigned to command the International Space Station in 2015 has unexpectedly resigned.

Cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov tendered his resignation to the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, on Thursday. Russian news agencies, quoting the head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, reported Lonchakov will be "formally discharged" on Sept. 14.

"He came and told me that he had found a better job than working in space," Sergei Krikalev, the training center's chief and the current record holder for most time in space by any human, told the Interfax news service. "Frankly, we were counting on him because he was not just in the unit, [but] he was assigned to a crew."

- Sergei Krikalev, chief of Russia's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

Lonchakov was scheduled to fly as the commander of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-16M, launching in March 2015 with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, the space station's first two yearlong crew members. [Quiz: Do You Know the International Space Station?]

Once on board the orbiting laboratory, Lonchakov was set to join the Expedition 43 crew as a flight engineer before taking over command of the space station as the leader of Expedition 44 in May 2015. He was then to return to Earth in October 2015.

Lonchakov's replacement on the crew was not announced. Backing him up on the Soyuz TMA-16M crew was Alexei Ovchinin, a fellow Roscosmos cosmonaut.

Lonchakov, 48, joined the cosmonaut corps in 1997 and flew three spaceflights to the International Space Station. He first launched on NASA's space shuttle Endeavour as a member of the STS-100 crew in 2001, helping to deliver the Canadarm2 robotic arm during the 12-day mission.

The next year, he flew on board the first Soyuz TMA-class spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-1, for a 10-day flight to the space station.

Lonchakov's third and now final spaceflight began in October 2008 with the launch of Soyuz TMA-13, the 100th crewed Soyuz spacecraftto fly. Serving as an Expedition 18 flight engineer, Lonchakov spent 178 days in space, bringing his career total to 200 days (and 19 hours) off the planet.

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International Space Station Transit of the Sun – 31-08-13 @ approx 15:40hrs – Video

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International Space Station Transit of the Sun - 31-08-13 @ approx 15:40hrs
International Space Station Transit of the Sun - 31-08-13 @ approx 15:40hrs. Trust Spacecam 380 webcam capture through a 200 PDS reflector on an NEQ6 Pro mount.

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