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Space Station crew pre-flight preparations.mp4
Story The next International Space Station crew concluded their pre-flight preparations on Tuesday. Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Canada's Chris Hadfield, and NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn will be travelling in a Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft. Blast-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is set for Wednesday, and the spacecraft will be docking with the ISS on December 21. TAGS- 2012, trend, trends, trending, trending, space, Russia, Kazakhstan, spacecraft, ISS, International Space Station, Canada, astronaut, NASA, US, America, United States, cosmonaut, space flight,

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Kerbal Space Program Ep63 - Space Station Core Construction
This episode is basically a video of me building a space station core. I will be trying to send it into space next episode, so stay tuned! Download the game! kerbalspaceprogram.com Twitter! twitter.com Facebook! http://www.facebook.com Subscribe for more Kerbal Space Program!

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Space Station New Year's Message
Commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineers Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn of the International Space Station's Expedition 34 crew send down their best wishes for a happy new year.

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New Year's Message From Space Station

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Building the International Space Station - 1997 NASA Educational Documentary
NASA describes the challengers and problems associated with the building of the International Space Station (ISS).

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying a multinational crew of three arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, setting the stage for a Canadian for the first time to take command of the orbital research base.

The spacecraft carrying Chris Hadfield from the Canadian Space Agency, NASA's Tom Marshburn, and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday and parked at the station's Rassvet docking module at 9:09 a.m. EST as the ships sailed 255 miles above northern Kazakhstan.

"The Soyuz sleigh has pulled into port at the International Space Station with a holiday gift of three new crewmembers," said NASA mission commentator Rob Navias.

The trio joined station commander Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeni Tarelkin, who are two months into a planned six-month mission.

Ford is due to turn over command of the $100-billion research complex, a project of 15 nations, in mid-March to Hadfield, who will become the first Canadian to lead a space expedition.

"This is a big event for me personally," Hadfield said in a preflight interview. "It takes a lot of work, a lot of focus. It's something that I can look back on as an accomplishment and a threshold of my life."

Command of the station, which has been continuously occupied since November, 2000, typically rotates between an American and a Russian crewmember.

In 2009, Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne broke that cycle to become the first European Space Agency commander. Japan's Koichi Wakata is training to lead the Expedition 39 crew in March, 2014.

All three of the station's new residents have made previous spaceflights. Hadfield, 53, is a veteran of two space shuttle missions. Marshburn, 52, has one previous shuttle mission, and Roman Romanenko, 41, a second-generation cosmonaut, served as a flight engineer aboard the space station in 2009.

The station crew will have some time off to celebrate several winter holidays in orbit - Christmas, the New Year, and then Orthodox Christmas - before tackling a list of about 150 science experiments and station maintenance, including two spacewalks.

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