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Server Saturdays – Season 8 – Episode 9 The Floating Orange, Space Station Epsilon and the Foxy Barn [Minecraft] – Video

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This week we visit a lovely floating house with a sweet bunker, we head into space inside of a broken spaceship, and finish off by taking some time off at a ...

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Astronaut takes robot on Earth for an experimental test drive from the International Space Station

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Chris Cassidy remotely controlled the K10 rover based in California from space to simulate deploying a radio telescope The experiment was designed to see how well a person can operate a robot from such a vast distance Test could contribute to a proposed mission to place telescope on the moon

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PUBLISHED: 10:05 EST, 1 July 2013 | UPDATED: 10:05 EST, 1 July 2013

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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has become the first person ever to control a robot on earth from space.

Flight engineer Chris Cassidy remotely controlled the K10 rover based in California from space to simulate deploying a radio telescope.

The mini mission was designed to test how well a crew member in space can remotely control a robot, whether it is on the surface of a moon, planet or asteroid.

Cassidy took the rover, based at the Ames Research Centre in California, on a remote test drive before using it to deploy the simulated antenna.

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China’s Spaceflight Success Sets Stage for Big Space Station

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The successful landing of China's latest manned space mission this week cast a spotlight on the country's growing human spaceflight skills as it hones the capabilities needed to build a huge, permanently crewed space station.

During the 15-day Shenzhou 10 spaceflight, three Chinese astronauts accomplished both automatic and manual dockings to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory, where they lived and worked during the mission. The crew also achieved a two-hour-long fly-around of the module, a first in space for China seen an effort to sharpen rendezvous expertise useful for future space station construction.

Aboard the Tiangong 1, the Shenzhou 10 crew tested space medicine and conducted various technology experiments. The astronauts held China's first public space lesson, a televised view of life inside Tiangong 1, and also replaced the lab module's soft flooring with hard flooring, which was deemed necessary for the crew to better maintain their microgravity footing. [See photos from China's Shenzhou 10 space mission]

The Shenzhou 10 crew made a parachute landing early Wednesday morning (June 26) local time, setting down within a target zone in the central Inner Mongolia, with the three astronauts commander Nie Haisheng, Wang Yaping (the second Chinese woman to fly in space) and Zhang Xiaoguang leaving the landed module safe and sound.

China's next steps in space

In a post-landing press conference, Wang Zhaoyao, Director General of the China Manned Space Agency, said, "With a complete success of this spaceflight mission as a milestone, China's manned space program will enter into a new phase of manned space station construction."

According to a report from the Asia News Network, Wang said the country would loft the Tiangong 2 space lab around 2015. Three years later, an experimental core space station module would be lofted, he said, with the focus on constructing a 60-ton, multi-module space station for China by 2020.

Wang said that between 2015 and 2020, a series of cargo and piloted spacecraft would deliver supplies and transport astronauts to the space lab and space station.

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That Time an Astronaut Bought a Pie to the International Space Station

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Would you like pie with that? (NASA)

Peggy Whitson was the first female commander of the International Space Station. When she arrived on the Station, she took part in a long NASA tradition: she brought gifts from Earth for her fellow crew members.

One of those gifts? A pie.

In a talk about Station life at the Aspen Ideas Festival yesterday, astronaut Jeffrey Ashby told the pie-in-the-sky story. Traditional gifts that astronauts bring up from Earth tend to be things like books and movies and DVDs, he said -- things to help astronauts living on the Station keep connected to the people and cultures back on Earth.

In Whitson's case, though, the gift was a pecan pie, provided by her husband."I don't know how they got it past the food people," Ashby said.

The problem, of course, was that in order to make it up to the Space Station, the pie had to be launched into space. Even stored in a locker aboard the shuttle that delivered Whitson and her payload, the piece was subject to g-forces. So by the time it arrived, Ashby said, "the pie was in about half the shell."

That was okay, though. Fortunately, Whitson had also brought up with her a food product that is both hardier and, in space, even more valuable than baked goods: hot sauce.

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Would you like pie with that? (NASA)

Peggy Whitson was the first female commander of the International Space Station. In October 2002, she was living on the Station. And during STS-112, the shuttle mission that sent astronauts to help build out the Station's infrastructure, her husband took part in a time-honored tradition: he sent her a care package.

One of his gifts? A pie.

In a talk about Station life at the Aspen Ideas Festival yesterday, astronaut Jeffrey Ashby told the pie-in-the-sky story. Traditional gifts that shuttles delivered to Station-bound astronauts tended to be things like books and movies and DVDs, he said -- things to help astronauts living on the Station keep connected to the people and cultures back on Earth.

In Whitson's case, though, the gift was a pecan pie-- a gesture from her husband."I don't know how he got it past the food people," Ashby said.

There was a problem, though: in order to make it up to the Space Station, the pie had to be, you know,launched into space. Even stored in a locker aboard the shuttle -- and even being pecan, one of the hardier types of pie -- the baked good was subject to g-forces. So by the time it arrived, Ashby said, "the pie was in about half the shell."

That was okay, though. In this, as with most gifts, it was the thought that counted. And, fortunately, Whitson's husband had also included in his care package a foodstuff that is less delicate and, in tastebud-challenging space,even more valuablethan pie: hot sauce.

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Would you like pie with that? (NASA)

Peggy Whitson was the first female commander of the International Space Station. When she arrived on the Station, she took part in a long NASA tradition: she brought gifts from Earth for her fellow crew members.

One of those gifts? A pie.

In a talk about Station life at the Aspen Ideas Festival yesterday, astronaut Jeffrey Ashby told the pie-in-the-sky story. Traditional gifts that astronauts bring up from Earth tend to be things like books and movies and DVDs, he said -- things to help astronauts living on the Station keep connected to the people and cultures back on Earth.

In Whitson's case, though, the gift was a pecan pie, provided by her husband."I don't know how they got it past the food people," Ashby said.

The problem, of course, was that in order to make it up to the Space Station, the pie had to be launched into space. Even stored in a locker aboard the shuttle that delivered Whitson and her payload, the piece was subject to g-forces. So by the time it arrived, Ashby said, "the pie was in about half the shell."

That was okay, though. Fortunately, Whitson had also brought up with her a food product that is both hardier and, in space, even more valuable than baked goods: hot sauce.

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Space Station 13 (SS13) – Mini-Series: Quartermaster – Part Three – Taking Responsibility – Video

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Space Station 13 (SS13) - Mini-Series: Quartermaster - Part Three - Taking Responsibility
Follow Quartermaster Link on Space Station 13, as he takes control of the station #39;s supplies and orders equipment and necessities to keep the station running...

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The Rogue TV – GoldFish’s International YouTuber Moon Space Station Entry – KSP – Video

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The Rogue TV - GoldFish #39;s International YouTuber Moon Space Station Entry - KSP
Today I take part in the IYMSS project going on. I try to bring the station some form of entertainment, but my module decides to do things differently! If yo...

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Astronaut Luca S. Parmitano Talks About International Space Station Combustion Study FLEX-ICE-GA – Video

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Astronaut Luca S. Parmitano Talks About International Space Station Combustion Study FLEX-ICE-GA
Excerpt from NASA TV broadcast of crew interview with Expedition 36 / 37 Flight Engineer Luca S. Parmitano, European Space Agency (ESA) conducted in a studio...

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