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Weekly Space Hangout - April 3, 2015
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / http://www.astroguyz.com) This Week #39;s Stories: Planetary Society: Orbit...

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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three crew on board successfully docked at the International Space Station Saturday after blasting off from Kazakhstan, NASA said, launching a year-long mission on the orbiting outpost.

The Soyuz-TMA16M spacecraft's crew included a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut who will be the first to spend an entire year on the ISS.

The successful docking occurred after the Soyuz took off without a glitch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 22:42 pm (1942 GMT) Friday, Russian space agency officials said earlier.

The hatch opened about two hours later at 0333 GMT, once the pressure between the two space vessels had equalised.

The three exchanged enthusiastic hugs with crew members already on board the ISS after the hatch opened.

NASA flight engineer Scott Kelly and Russian Mikhail Kornienko will together spend a total of 342 days aboard the ISS, while the third crew member, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, will spend the usual period of six months.

Kelly, 51, and 54-year-old Kornienko will take part in the extended mission to test the effects of long-term space missions on the human body.

The trip marks the longest amount of time that two people will live continuously at the ISS, though a handful of Russian cosmonauts spent a year to 14 months at the Russian space station Mir in the 1990s.

"This is the first time we're doing it as an international partnership, which I think is one of the great success stories of the International Space Station," Kelly said at a news conference in Baikonur ahead of the launch.

He said the experiment could prove vital towards planning future international missions, including to Mars.

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Astronaut #39;s view of thunderstorms / Reid Wiseman, International Space Station

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Space Station Live: Counting Down to the Start of a Year in Space
NASA Commentator Pat Ryan talks with astronaut Scott Kelly about his upcoming One Year Mission to the International Space Station. Veterans of previous six-month trips to the station, Kelly...

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Alien: Isolation - Episode #44 - Electrical Engineers
Amanda Ripley #39;s search for her missing mother has lead her to the space station Sevastopol... Unfortunately, something terrible has happened on board! Amanda will have to fight for her life...

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International Space Station Timelapse for Tue, 31st March 2015 UTC
This is a image taken from the live feed from the International Space Station (ISS).

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Space Pawn Trailer by VapeWild
VapeWild presents a first look at the highly anticipated release of Space Pawn: Ozone. This amazing story tells the epic tale of Buck Wild as he tries to find e-juice relics in the galaxy....

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Space station camera captures ominous video of Super Typhoon Maysak | Mashable
he International Space Station #39;s High-Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment captured views of Super Typhoon Maysak from space and broadcasted it live on Ustream. Astronauts on board the...

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Typhoon Maysak Seen From Space
The International Space Station passed near Typhoon Maysak on Wednesday. Photo: Terry W. Virts Subscribe to the WSJ channel here: http://bit.ly/14Q81Xy Visit the WSJ channel for more video:...

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One-Year Crew Talks About Start of #YearInSpace
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko answer questions about their arrival aboard the International Space Station and the beginning of their one-year mission in...

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