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ATV-4 - Docking to International Space Station - June 15, 2013
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International Space Station June 17th
The Space Station Live recap video for June 17, 2013. Watch the full Space Station Live broadcast weekdays on NASA TV at 10 a.m. Expedition 36.

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Strange Flames on the International Space Station [HD]
Science@NASA: Researchers experimenting with flames onboard the International Space Station have produced a strange, cool-burning form of fire that could hel...

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Kerbal Space Program - Space Station Tutorial - Part 1 of 2
Took me a long time for this one. I am getting better so hopefuly I #39;ll get even more done in shorter time periods. Thankyou for watching. Please dock on over...

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Full Orbital Rendezvous - Small ship to Large Space Station
Full orbit rendezvous to my space station includes launch. Link to the final docking stage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rer76W2Gv2M feature=player_detailpa...

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Space Station! - Kerbal Space Program Ep #4
I launch the rocket we built in episode #3 and proceed to put the first space station component into orbit. Plenty of tips about using MechJeb 2.0 along the ...

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NASA unveiled today an upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The operation center's new capabilities enhance collaboration and enable the ground team to efficiently help the International Space Station crew and researchers around the world perform cutting-edge science in the unique space environment.

The Payload Operations Integration Center -- which began around-the-clock operations March 19, 2001 -- plans and coordinates all the research activities on the space station. Since NASA and 15 international partners completed station assembly in 2011, crews have devoted more time to conducting space station science.

"Conducting cutting-edge research that benefits space exploration as well as life on Earth is a top priority for the space station," said Michael Suffredini, manager of NASA's International Space Station Program. "With this amazing in-space laboratory now fully functional, the crews are able to dedicate more time each week to scientific research and the payload operations team at Marshall has had a major role in making that happen."

The first upgrades to the control room since it was established were completed on June 11. The renovated room features a video wall that expands the ability to share information, such as live video, diagrams and photographs of experiments or displays on experiment power usage or scientific data acquisition. The wall instantly allows the data to be shared by the full team and has the capability to show multiple data and video views related to one or more experiments. With more than 200 experiments on the station at any time, sharing information rapidly among the ground team members and the crew in space is important. With the upgraded flight control room's new arrangement of flight control positions, communication is improved.

"Over the course of the last 12 years, our team has learned much about how they can collaborate to maximize science return," said Jay Onken, manager of the Mission Operations Laboratory at Marshall. "They used this knowledge to redesign the control room to have the most modern technical equipment to support the most amazing international engineering and scientific endeavor of the century."

The upgrades complement the planned modernization of the International Space Station mission control center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The control center in Houston and the operations center in Huntsville both operate 24/7, 365 days a year and interact continuously.

"We recently achieved a major milestone exceeding the goal of completing an average of 37 hours of crew-tended science per week across a six month period," said Carmen Price, leader of the payload operations integration function at Marshall. "Our team even helped the crew achieve a record 72 hours of crew-tended science experiments -- the most hours of science ever conducted by a space station crew in a single week. While the crew is sleeping, we are here conducting experiments remotely from Earth, ensuring numerous automated experiments have the power and data recording and transmission needed to operate successfully."

From the Apollo Program to Skylab to Shuttle/Spacelab missions, Marshall engineers and scientists have collaborated to provide both space-based and ground-based science research facilities for the NASA science community. In addition to its operations role, Marshall manages many science facilities that house station experiments and the Environmental Control and Life Support System that makes it possible for people to live on the station. Marshall's support for the station is a continuation of its key roles in previous human spaceflight programs.

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Accelerating Space Station Science: NASA Marshall's Upgraded Payload Operations Integration Center Enhances Station Work

NASA Television will provide live coverage when two members of the Expedition 36 crew venture outside the International Space Station on Monday, June 24. The pair will conduct a six-hour spacewalk in preparation for the addition of a new Russian module later this year.

NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk by Russian flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin will begin at 9 a.m. EDT. Yurchikin and Misurkin will begin the spacewalk about 9:35 a.m. when they open the hatch to the space station's Pirs docking compartment and float outside.

They will replace a fluid flow control panel on the station's Zarya module and install clamps for future power cables as an early step toward swapping the Pirs airlock with a new multipurpose laboratory module. The Russian Federal Space Agency plans to launch a combination research facility, airlock and docking port late this year on a Proton rocket.

Yurchikhin and Misurkin also will retrieve several science experiments on the outside of the Zvezda service module.

The spacewalk will be the 169th in support of space station assembly and maintenance, the sixth for Yurchikhin and the first for Misurkin. Yurchikhin will wear an Orlan-MK spacesuit with red stripes while Misurkin will wear a suit with blue stripes. Both spacewalkers will be equipped with NASA helmet cameras to provide close-up views of their work.

This is the second of up to six Russian spacewalks planned for this year. Two U.S. spacewalks by NASA's Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are scheduled in July.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station

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The shots were captured using a 150mm f/12 Maksutov telescope They were taken by Maximilian Teodorescu near the town of Dumitrana in Romania

By Victoria Woollaston

PUBLISHED: 06:27 EST, 20 June 2013 | UPDATED: 08:14 EST, 20 June 2013

While testing his new telescope a Romanian astrophotographer managed to capture clear images of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon, in broad daylight.

And the snap makes Nasa's space station look remarkably like the iconic USS Enterprise from TV show Star Trek.

Maximilian Teodorescu was testing the range of his new 150mm f/12 Maksutov telescope near the town of Dumitrana in Romania earlier this month when he took the shot.

This shot of the International Space Station as it crosses in front of the moon was taken by Romanian astrophotographer Maximilian Teodorescu. It bears a striking resemblance to the USS Enterprise ship from TV show Star Trek

The Starship Enterprise was one of the ships that featured in the Star Trek franchise. In the show, this NX-01 model was the first NX-class starship and was launched by the United Earth Starfleet in 2151

Teodorescu took the images on 15 June at around 6.17pm in Romania.

He posted the photos tohis blog. Translated from Romanian, it reads: 'A new 'First-light' or rather 'First-photo'.

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Space Station Rocket - Kerbal Space Program Ep #3
It #39;s time to build the first component of a new space station in Kerbal Space Program! We #39;re going to need batteries, RCS, lights, a crew compartment, a comm...

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