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Breaking News - Astronaut Barry Wilmore delivers a special message to USS Theodore Roosevelt
Breaking News - Astronaut Barry Wilmore delivers a special message to USS Theodore Roosevelt EARTH #39;s ORBIT (Jan. 26, 2015) NASA Astronaut and Navy Captain Barry Wilmore delivers a special...

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Lets play Alien: Isolation. EP#1my first video ever
Part of the Alien series, the game is set in 2137, 15 years after the events of Alien and 42 years prior to Aliens. The game follows Amanda Ripley, who is investigating the disappearance of...

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Hows this for a unique workspace? This is where ISS astronauts get things done.

NASAs description:

This image of the interior view from the International Space Stations Cupola module was taken on Jan. 4, 2015. The large bay windows allows the Expedition 42 crew to see outside. The Cupola houses one of the space stations two robotic work stations used by astronauts to manipulate the large robotic arm seen through the right window. The robotic arm, or Canadarm2, was used throughout the construction of the station and is still used to grapple visiting cargo vehicles and assist astronauts during spacewalks. The Cupola is attached to the nadir side of the space station and also gives a full panoramic view of the Earth.

Large windows, lots of buttons and joysticks, and, of course, that awesome view. We cant all aspire to have a workspace like this, but its fun to look anyway.

International Space Station Expedition 42 Image Gallery [NASA via io9]

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The International Space Station Workspace

Russian space food on sale in Moscow. Photo: Nasa/Collectspace.com

Move over astronaut ice cream, Russian space food tubes have arrived.

As of Friday February 6, the All-Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow now sells authentic cosmonaut food to the public, the state-run Sputnik news service reported.

The centre, a sprawling trade show also known by the Russian acronym VDNKh, is marketing the cosmic cuisine in toothpaste-like tubes.

"Visitors [to VDNKh] will have a chance to try a full-course cosmonaut menu, including four kinds of soups, various meat dishes and a variety of desserts," the Sputnik report said.

"According to organisers, there will be 11 variations of tubes, each tasting like a different kind of food."

The selection, according to the Russian website Menu.ru, include marinated lamb and pork with vegetables, cottage cheese dessert with sea buckthorn fruit, and apricot, apple and blackcurrant puree.

The tubes, which are offered through a vending machine, cost 300 rubles, or about (US)$4.50, each.

They are produced by the same factory and using the same methods as the food that is prepared for the Russian cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station.

"Producers do not use any genetically-modified products and assure that the food in the tubes is made from natural ingredients only," the news service noted.

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Almost disappearing behind the solar panels before sunrise: the US East coast from DC to Boston. #HelloEarth. Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti

The Expedition 42 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) continues to delight us with stunning views of Our Beautiful Earth from Space.

Heres a collection of a few of the newest sunrises, auroras, landscapes, nightlights, and more snapshots from the multinational crew of six astronauts and cosmonauts living and working aboard the ISS orbiting some 250 miles (400 kilometers) overhead.

And dont forget that at sunset tonight (Feb. 8), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is due to blastoff at 6:10 p.m., EST, if all goes well carrying the DSCOVR space weather satellite about a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away to the L1 Lagrange point.

The Falcon 9 will blastoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida, pictured below:

From Key West to the Gulf of Mexico and #Atlanta, a very nice, clear, half moonlit night. Credit: NASA/Terry Virts. KSC and Cape Canaveral launch pads along Florida east coast at right.

Tens of millions of you are included in the lead sunrise photo of the U.S. East Coast taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti perched aboard the orbiting lab complex.

And heres a speechless sunrise taken today by NASA astronaut Terry Virts. We agree!

#speechless from this #sunrise. Credit: NASA/Terry Virts

Always happy to see this lovely sight that has become familiar in #Patagonia. Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti

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Gorgeous Sunrises, Auroras, Landscapes, and More from Space Station Crew