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#ICYMI 7 JAN 2015 #ISS #SpotTheStation Albuquerque, New Mexico @DaveAtCOGS #ABQ @NewMexico
Watch the International Space Station pass over the SCIS SkySentinel Allsky Camera node. Location: Sandia National Laboratory FACT, Albuquerque, NM (node 3) Date Time Group: 7 Jan 2015, 8:08...

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The astronauts and cosmonauts onboard the International Space Station now have three new crewmates who look a lot like them only much smaller.

LEGO minifigures customized to look like NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shklaperov and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti were recently revealed as being on the orbital outpost. The tiny toy space explorers were among the gifts the crew exchanged on New Year's Day.

The station's resident cosmonauts Shklaperov, Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova included a photo of the LEGO minifigures velcroed to a wall as part of a blog entry they posted to Roscosmos' website. [See images of LEGOs in space]

"There were gifts!" the cosmonauts wrote, describing their celebration. "From family, friends and colleagues!"

Each of the 2-inch-tall (5 centimeters) minifigures are clad in Russian Sokol spacesuits like the real crew members wore when they launched in November from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Each of the small suits even has the proper agency and national flags: NASA/USA for Virts, Roscosmos/Russia for Shklaperov and ESA/Italy for Cristoforetti.

Shklaperov's and Cristoforetti's minifig suits also feature the Soyuz TMA-15M mission patch, whereas Virts' figure includes a LEGO football, similar to one he has been seen tossing around on the space station.

The cosmonauts said that the minifigures were a gift from Cristoforetti. She received them from a training instructor at the European Space Agency, who commissioned them from the UK-based company Minifigs.me.

The minifigures were customized based on photos of the crew. The company was unaware that their creations were space-bound until they saw the cosmonauts' post.

"I've always been a huge space nerd," Minifigs.me codirector Nick Savage said in a press statement. "I may never become an astronaut, but it is amazing to think my little LEGO guys have."

"It is wonderful to know that they are up there right now, whizzing through space at over 17,000 miles per hour. We have shipped all over the world before, but never off it," he remarked.

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The fifth official SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract now is scheduled to launch at 4:47 a.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 10, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage of the launch will begin at 3:30 a.m.

The previous launch attempt on Tuesday was aborted with one minute, 21 seconds left on the countdown clock because engineers observed drift on one of two thrust vector control actuators for the Falcon 9's second stage and stopped the countdown.

A Saturday launch will result in the Dragon spacecraft arriving at the space station Monday, Jan. 12. Expedition 42 Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA will use the station's 57.7-foot robotic arm to capture Dragon at approximately 6 a.m. Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency will support Wilmore as they operate from the station's cupola.

NASA TV coverage of grapple will begin at 4:30 a.m. Coverage of Dragon's installation to the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module will begin at 8:15 a.m.

If the launch does not take place Saturday, the next launch opportunity would be Tuesday, Jan. 13 at about 3:36 a.m.

Dragon's cargo will support more than 250 experiments that will be conducted by the space station's Expeditions 42 and 43 crews.

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Star Citizen Artwork: Space Station
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Space Station Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space in 3D
Space Station Astronauts Grow a Water Bubble in Space in 3D During Expedition 40 in the summer of 2014, NASA astronauts Steve Swanson and Reid Wiseman alon...

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KSP Career Mode 0.90 - S1 E16 - First Space Station
We return to Kerbal Space Program after it has received a very important update. No longer is KSP in its Alpha build but now it #39;s in its Beta Than Ever build and we will not just the career...

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Nova Voyager - DV7 - From Earth to the Space Station
It #39;s time to go into Space! 🙂 In this video we start our space adventure reaching an Earth Space Station orbiting at 400 km at the speed of about 30000 km/h. We are going to see how to approach...

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Minecraft Deadly Orbit 1# - The Shuttle
Hello and welcome to deadly orbit! a minecraft survival map on a lone abandoned space station! in this episode we get into the compartments of the shuttle in preparation for entering the Internatio...

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Lets Play Alien Isolation Gameplay - Part 5 - And Vanish
Lets Play Alien Isolation. This gameplay takes place 15 years after the first Alien movie. Amanda Ripley tries to discover what happened to her Mother, everything goes wrong and encounters...

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International Space Station for Mon, 5th January 2015
This is a image taken from the live feed from the International Space Station.

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