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The sixth SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch on Monday, April 13, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 3:30 p.m. EDT.

The company's Falcon 9 rocket will lift off at 4:33 p.m., carrying its Dragon cargo spacecraft. Dragon is filled with more than 4,300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support about 40 of the more than 250 science and research investigations that will occur during Expeditions 43 and 44.

In addition to launch coverage, NASA also will host a series of prelaunch news conferences on Sunday, April 12, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All briefings, which are subject to a change in time, will air live on NASA TV and the agency's website.

During panel discussions Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., scientists and researchers will discuss the onboard science and research studies. The series of briefings will conclude with a prelaunch news conference at 5 p.m. A post-launch briefing will be held approximately 90 minutes after liftoff Monday.

Science payloads will study new ways to possibly counteract the microgravity-induced cell damage seen during spaceflight, the effects of microgravity on the most common cells in bones, gather new insight that could lead to treatments for osteoporosis and muscle wasting conditions, continue studies into astronaut vision changes and test a new material that could one day be used as a synthetic muscle for robotics explorers of the future.

A Monday launch will result in the Dragon spacecraft arriving at the space station Wednesday, April 15. Expedition 43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) will use the station's 57.7-foot robotic arm to reach out and capture Dragon at approximately 7 a.m.Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA will support Cristoforetti as they operate from the station's cupola. NASA TV coverage of grapple will begin at 5 a.m.Coverage of Dragon's installation to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module will begin at 9:15 a.m.

If the launch does not occur on Monday, the next launch opportunity would beat approximately 4:10 p.m.Tuesday, April 14.

After about five weeks at the space station, Dragon will return to Earth filled with more than 3,000 pounds of cargo including crew supplies, hardware and computer resources, science experiments, and space station hardware.

Media may request accreditation to attend the prelaunch news conferences, events and launch online at:https://media.ksc.nasa.gov

The deadline for U.S. media to apply for accreditation is noon on April 9. The application deadline has passed for international media. Media credentials will be valid for mission activities from launch through splashdown at Kennedy and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Space From The International Space Station (ISS)
Space From The International Space Station (ISS) The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure...

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One-Year Space Station Mission Huge Step To Mars | Video
Slated to start at the end of March 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will spend a year aboard the International Space Station. Kelly, crewmate Mikhail Kornienko, and NASA explain how studying...

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Isolation Consolidation
Bear Grilles shows that he doesn #39;t have what it takes to survive on a nearly-derelict space station. Did I mention that this is a spooky game?

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IMAGE:Astronauts Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren are shown during International Space Station EVA Maintenance 9 Training at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at the Sonny Carter Training Facility. view more

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Training an astronaut is no easy task. Astronauts go through years of rigorous technical, health and safety training to learn simple and complex tasks for a typical four to six month mission. They develop skills in systems, robotics, spacecraft operations, space engineering activities and even learn Russian. As NASA develops deep space exploration missions on its journey to Mars, the agency is investigating current training methods in order to adapt to the longer and longer missions.

"During the Shuttle Program, astronauts trained about 5 to 8 years for a 10 to 14 day mission, with a work-timeline scripted down to the minute." says Immanuel Barshi, a research psychologist from NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, in the center's Human Systems Integration division.

Decades of crew member research demonstrate that space can have adverse effects on people. Data suggests that the longer humans are in space, the greater the effects. On a trip to Mars, for instance, humans will be exposed to three years of microgravity and radiation; confined in an environment with three to five other people; separated from home; will experience altered day-night/light cycles; and will have three years to inevitably forget some of the training learned before leaving the planet.

Barshi's research, a study called Training Retention, examines to what extent these aspects of a Mars mission might affect a crew member's performance, as well as provide fresh insights into the way humans are trained for their jobs on Earth. Working with collaborators at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Barshi will study astronaut Scott Kelly's performance during his one-year mission aboard the International Space Station, in addition to that of other astronauts on six-month missions, and will compare results with astronauts on the ground over the same timeframe.

In conjunction with the Center for Research on Training at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, Barshi will compare the astronaut skill retention data from space and ground with that of undergraduate students. Much of what is known on how people learn and how well they retain information or skills is based upon university research. Such comparisons are critical to the application of ground assumptions to space operations, especially how the effects of long duration space travel affect crew members.

"Researchers know that skills retained for long periods are very specific, while generalizable skills decay much faster unless continuously practiced," says Barshi.

For example, a person can learn to enter the numbers 8675309 on a computer keypad extremely fast with excellent accuracy, and retain the skill for a long time. Ask them to do the same task, only this time using a different number sequence and the same person will be just as slow as another person who never practiced the original task. Meaning, it is the specific sequence of numbers that people remember, not the generalizable skill of entering any number.

Results from this study will not only inform choices about astronaut pre-launch, on-board and follow-on training, but they may apply to training requirements for other professional careers. Currently, high risk industries, such as oil drillers, nuclear power plant operators, medical doctors and aircraft pilots or air traffic controllers, set training requirements based upon industry consensus and not necessarily specific research.

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Brightman contributed to the design of her own mission patch for TMA 18/16M to commemorate her trip to the International Space Station in September. (credit: SarahBrightman.com)

In September, soprano and classical crossover performer Sarah Brightman, with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. She will be travelling as a spaceflight participant arranged by Space Adventures. Brightman will be only the second female spaceflight participant to travel to the ISS, after Anousheh Ansari in 2006.

Six men have also made the epic trip through Space Adventures. However, Brightmans worldwide fame will draw unprecedented attention to orbital personal spaceflight during her mission to and aboard the ISS. News networks will begin airing segments about her trip weeks in advance of launch. The day of launch it could be the top story on every news broadcast around the world. For Brightman, it will be the realization of a dream she has had for decades.

Brightman was born in August 1960, the first of six children. By the time of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969, she had already been attending piano and dancing classes for five years. She had followed the news of the July 16 launch of the Saturn V carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins.

On July 20th, the Brightmans gathered their children around the television in their Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England home for the live broadcast. Millions of people were riveted to their TVs as the black and white video images were beamed live back to Earth. Sarah Brightman watched in wonder as Neil Armstrong stepped down the ladder of the lunar module. He cautiously placed his boot on the lunar surface and uttered those immortal words, Thats one small step for manone giant leap for mankind. At that moment, something clicked for Brightman, she recalled in an interview.

Being lucky enough to have watched the first man land on the Moon, Brightman said in a London press conference on March 10 hosted by Carol Vorderman, we thought we were going to be astronauts. It was all about space [back then]. For me to have got this far and to be able to have a taste of what I felt at the time, is an amazing thing.

Like many others who witnessed the first American astronauts to walk on the surface of the Moon, Brightman harbored the dream of one day going into space herself. She did not know how that might come about, but she always carried this dream with her. She continued her musical training and entered the Arts Education School in 1971. The die was cast, and Brightman embarked on a path that led her to stardom and worldwide fame. She focused on theater performance and later, her voice as a soprano having received her formal training at the Royal College of Music.

During the 1980s and the 1990s, Brightman continued to build a recording and performing career around the world. In 2001, she learned with interest of the flight of Dennis Tito to the ISS, arranged by Space Adventures. She became even more intrigued at the possibility when she read about Anousheh Ansarithe first female spaceflight participantwho achieved her own dream of going into space for an eight-day mission aboard the ISS.

On October 10, 2012, Brightman was in Moscow for a press conference where she would make a dramatic announcement. Also present were Alexey Krasnov, chief of Roscosmos Piloted Programs Department; Eric Anderson, Chairman of Space Adventures, Ltd.; and Neil Ford of UNESCO. The suspicions of the media that were present were confirmed before a word was even spoken. Being the consummate entertainer and performer, the conference opened with a music video showing film clips of Sarah Brightmans childhood interspaced with historic footage from American and Russian manned space missions, with a musical overlay of her singing Angel, from her upcoming album Dreamchaser.

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Lift Off: Soyuz Spacecraft Launches for Space Station
(Bloomberg) -- The Soyuz spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan bound for the International Space Station on Friday. American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko are expected to...

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