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An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in a record time, officials said Thursday, taking just under six hours from launch to complete the journey.

Russia said an unmanned supply ship set for the International Space Station will fall back to Earth Friday and burn up in the atmosphere, after the spacecraft suffered a communications failure.

A Russian booster rocket on Friday successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station, whose crew is anxiously awaiting it after the successive failures of two previous supply missions.

A Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese docked smoothly Thursday with the International Space Station.

Russia on Monday successfully launched a Proton rocket, carrying a Russian telecoms satellite, from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the second successful launch since the disastrous loss of a Mexican satellite in ...

Russia successfully launched an unmanned cargo spaceship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday night, redeeming itself after a string of failures that cast a shadow on its space programme.

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The space suite at this hotel in Zrich was designed with all the classic space films in mind.

By Jessica Plautz2015-10-01 19:55:31 UTC

A hotel in Switzerland is capitalizing on our collective space craze.

The Grand Kameha Zrich hotel is offering guests the opportunity to stay in a space suite a space station-inspired accommodation with an elaborate astronaut motif for $2,000 a night.

German artist Michael Najjar designed the suite for the Grand Kameha.

Najjar hopes to be the first contemporary artist in space he has gone through cosmonaut training in Russia, spending the past three years preparing to become one of Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic Pioneer Astronauts.

"The idea behind this is to immerse guests or crew members in the atmosphere of a space station," the hotel said in a statement, "tapping into various elements of perception to enliven the experience."

While the suite is indeed space-y, it has little in common with the space station. For one thing, the hotel has not done away with gravity but that's nitpicking.

Instead, the suite is more of a sci-fi recreation of a luxurious future in space, even though Najjar's purpose was art and not comfort.

"The intention was not at all to create a comfortable bedroom," he told CNN.

Comfortable or not, here's a look at the suite along with the reality at the International Space Station (ISS).

The "zero gravity" bed at the Grand Kameha is designed to look as though it's floating. Unfortunately, it won't give you the feeling of being at zero gravity. Unlike astronaut Scott Kelly's bed on the ISS, which is designed to hold him to it while he catches some zzzzs.

An astronaut's glove is coming out of the wall in the space suite. In space, the gloves have a slightly different purpose than cellphone holder.

The spacious (get it) living room at the Grand Kameha is about as different from ISS as you can get. The hotel is outfitting the suite with an Apple TV; in space, the astronauts recently crowded around a screen to watch The Martian before it was out in theaters.

The overhead lights are meant to mimic jet engines luckily they only emit about 40 watts, though.

Najjar took his inspiration from several different movies, including Dark Star and 2001: A Space Odyssey. The flair for the dramatic is clear in the design, and will likely be a hit with (well to do) travelers who are eager for Virgin Galactic to become a reality.

But if you want a real space experience, the Grand Kameha is not your best bet.

"For [about the cost of] two nights in that hotel suite, you could just go on a zero-gravity parabolic flight," according to Mashable's space reporter Miriam Kramer. (A weightless flight with Zero G is $4,950 + tax.)

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Where is the International Space Station?

The International Space Station with ESAs Columbus laboratory flies 400 km high at speeds that defy gravity literally. At 28 800 km/h it only takes 90 minutes for the weightless laboratory to make a complete circuit of Earth. Astronauts working and living on the Station experience 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

The tracker above, developed by ESA, shows where the Space Station is right now and its path 90 minutes ago and 90 minutes ahead. Due to Earth's rotation the Station seems to travel from west to east over our planet. Below the map of Earth you can see where the Station is flying directly above. You can see the International Space Station with your own eyes from here by looking up at the right time.

Below is a live view of Earth taken by a camera on the International Space Station, a view similar to that astronauts get from above. Without Earths atmosphere to protect us, people and equipment endure the full barrage of cosmic rays and solar radiation. The images are part of the NASA HDEV experiment that is looking at how fast these harmful rays degrade the image through camera and equipment damage. Sometimes the image is black because the Space Station does not have continuous radio contact with ground control. In that case, check back later.

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RUSSIAN ROCKET POISED FOR CRUCIAL SUPPLY RUN TO SPACE STATION - The stakes are high for a routine cargo mission to the International Space Station, after a string of failures has left the orbiting outpost running somewhat low on supplies. Early Friday, an unmanned Russian rocket will lift off with food, fuel and other essentials. The launch comes less than a week after another unmanned rocket from commercial firm SpaceX disintegrated shortly after liftoff. That was the third failure since October. Normally, the station is stocked with six months of supplies. "Today we're at, give or take, about four months," station manager Mike Suffredini said during a recent NASA press conference. More (Source: NPR - Jul 3)

RUSSIA'S MILITARY SATELLITE DELAY LEAVES COUNTRY VULNERABLE TO NUCLEAR MISSILE ATTACKS - Russia may be working on modernizing its strategic missile force by developing advanced nuclear missile systems, but the country is itself vulnerable to similar attacks after delaying the launch of a new satellite-based missile warning system by four months, local media reported Wednesday. The launch of the military satellite system has been postponed until November, leaving Russia blind in the event of a potential nuclear missile attack, The Moscow Times reported. The country's aging Soviet-era early warning satellites seriously malfunctioned last year when one of three units went offline, followed by the decommissioning of the remaining two satellites in January. More (Source: International Business Times - Jul 2)

RUSSIAN CARGO SPACECRAFT WILL LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION EARLY FRIDAY - A robotic Russian cargo vessel will try to buck a negative recent trend when it launches toward the International Space Station early Friday morning (July 3). Russia's Progress 60 freighter is scheduled to blast off atop a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the central Asian nation of Kazakhstan at 12:55 a.m. EDT Friday (0455 GMT, 10:55 a.m. local time in Kazakhstan). The launch comes just five days after SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded less than 3 minutes into flight, ending the California-based company's seventh contracted cargo run to the orbiting lab for NASA - and about two months after the previous Progress freighter (Progress 59) fell back to Earth, victimized by a problem with its Soyuz booster. More (Source: Space.com - Jul 2)

SPACEX ROCKET FAILURE RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT SPACE STATION'S VITAL SUPPLIES - NASA prides itself on preparing for the worst, but three rocket explosions in eight months are testing the agency's backup plans. Sunday's explosion of a SpaceX rocket, bound for the International Space Station, followed the fiery end of an Orbital Sciences launch in October and the failure of a Russian resupply vessel in April. As both American companies remain grounded during ongoing investigations, questions are now being raised about how long NASA can keep the scientific researchers at the space station. NASA officials remain confident that the crew has adequate food and water until the end of October, but the agency offered a less rosy outlook even before the last two failures. More (Source: Los Angeles Times - Jul 1)

NASA OFFICIALS CONFIRM MYSTERIOUS FIREBALL IS SPACE JUNK - NASA says a mysterious object that light up the night sky in the southeast was space debris re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Channel 2 Action News received several phone calls into the newsroom and many people posted pictures and videos to social media. The object was spotted around 1:30 a.m. in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. People described it looking like a bright fireball with lights streaming behind it. The flash didn't last very long, it disappeared after a few moments. More (Source: WSB-TV - Jun 30)

SATELLITE OWNERS AMONG BYSTANDERS IN FALCON 9 ACCIDENT - The long queue of satellites waiting on launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon rockets - a backlog the company says is worth $7 billion - will stay grounded while investigators determine what caused a Falcon 9 booster to disintegrate after liftoff Sunday with supplies heading for the International Space Station. Commercial and government satellite operators - from telecom giant SES to NOAA's climate research team - were lined up to fly on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket in the coming months, and they will have to wait longer than bargained for when they signed on to launch on the commercial booster. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 30)

RUSSIAN SHIP TO SUPPLY INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AFTER SPACE X EXPLOSION - The International Space Station crew will be spared any risk of hardship because a regular Russian Progress supply mission will be launched to them on Friday, according to Garcia's blog. On Sunday, a private sector Space X rocket exploded on an unmanned supply mission to the ISS shortly after being launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Space X Dragon cargo craft "was lost about 139 seconds after launch Sunday morning," Garcia noted. More (Source: Sputnik International - Jun 30)

SPACEX'S FALCON 9 ROCKET EXPLODES ON LAUNCH - Sunday's SpaceX launch failure will not delay plans to send three more astronauts to the International Space Station next month, NASA said. Officials said the mishap -- the third in less than a year by three different resupply vehicles -- also showed the wisdom of the agency's strategy for launching astronauts commercially with two providers, SpaceX and Boeing. SpaceX believes a problem with pressure in the Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage liquid oxygen tank caused the rocket to break apart more than two minutes after its 10:21 a.m. launch from Cape Canaveral. More (Source: USA Today - Jun 28)

SPACEX READIES DRAGON FOR LAUNCH TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon cargo ship for launch Sunday to deliver more than 4,000 pounds of equipment, supplies and science gear to the International Space Station, including the first of two new docking adapters needed to capture American crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX. The science instruments and supplies cover a wide range of disciplines, including work to help figure out what is causing vision problems in three quarters of the astronauts who make long-duration space flights. A customized camera will photograph shooting stars from above to determine their chemical composition and the station crew will attempt to grow cabbage that can be added to the lab's menu. More (Source: CBS News - Jun 28)

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When it comes to preparing for a long-duration space trip, forget the Tang; what you really need are some wholesome snacks.

Aspiring astronauts got a glimpse of spaceflyers' snack options when Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti showed off her favorite space snacks in a videorecorded on the International Space Station and released the European Space Agency on April 21.

"Snack time is a great opportunity to put the right kind of rocket fuel in your body," Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly in space, said in the video. "And, as always, don't panic eating healthy is not rocket science."

In the video, she casually grabs dried apples, macadamia nuts, a pumpkin-seed bar and other snacks from a rack in the space station's Node 1 (Unity) module, showing all of them before letting them float away off-camera. (Except for one macadamia nut, which Cristoforetti munched.)

All of these snacks have a long shelf life, which makes sense because astronauts don't have access to refrigeration on board the orbiting lab, and the spaceflyers routinely go months between cargo shipments.

Lastly, Cristoforetti displayed a "very special power bar" made just for her. It includes "plenty of healthy nutritious ingredients" such as nuts, seeds, full-grain cereals and the cyanobacterium spirulina.

Cristoforetti arrived at theInternational Space Station in November. She and fellow Expedition 43 crewmembers Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts are scheduled to come back to Earth Wednesday (May 13).

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