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#39;SPACE STATION FLY OVER #39; With Multiple #39;SATTELITES #39; in background 17.2.2013 - Melbourne
Didn #39;t see any of these when I was recording apart from ISS. (All in fast forward, normal sattelite speed) http://www.youtube.com

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The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 in this file photo. (The Associated Press)

SpaceX is scheduled to send its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on March 1, the third such trip for the groundbreaking Hawthorne rocket developer.

The company officially known as Space Exploration Technologies will send about 1,200 pounds of supplies on the Dragon for the space station crew.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry Dragon to orbit with a launch at 7:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA announced the schedule on Thursday.

SpaceX's mission will further NASA's plan for commercial businesses to take over resupplying the orbiting laboratory. That task had previously rested on NASA, which used to maintain a fleet of space shuttles. However, NASA retired the final space shuttle in 2011.

The space agency expects to save money by allowing companies like SpaceX to take supplies - and eventually humans - to the space station.

That also will free NASA to focus on more ambitious deep-space missions like visiting asteroids and reaching Mars.

SpaceX's first mission to the space station was in May, making history by becoming the first private company to send a craft to the international lab. That was a test flight even though it delivered supplies and returned equipment to Earth.

SpaceX followed its May feat with a second successful mission in October.

SpaceX is under a $1.6 billion NASA contract that calls

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custom marvel legends action figure SPACE STATION WOLVERINE (battle damaged)

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The docking capped a two-day journey that began with an emotional send-off from the Kennedy Space Center, where about 1 million spectators gathered to watch the shuttle thunder into the sky for the program's 135th and final flight

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CAPE CANAVERAL, USA: U.S. space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program.

Commander Chris Ferguson gently eased Atlantis into its parking slip on the station's Harmony node at 11:07 a.m. EDT as the spacecraft soared 230 miles over the Pacific Ocean.

"Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time," station flight engineer Ron Garan radioed to the crew.

Crews opened Atlantis' hatch less than two hours later and the shuttle's 4-member crew floated through the airlock into the recently completed $100 billion orbital outpost.

After a 30-year history that has cost nearly $200 billion and claimed the lives of 14 astronauts, the shuttles are being retired to make way for a new generation of spacecraft that President Barack Obama says will put U.S. astronauts on an asteroid and then on to Mars.

The docking capped a two-day journey that began with an emotional send-off from the Kennedy Space Center, where about 1 million spectators gathered on Friday to watch the shuttle thunder into the sky for the program's 135th and final flight.

About an hour before docking, Ferguson gently somersaulted Atlantis so Garan and crew-mates aboard the station could photograph the shuttle's delicate heat-resistant tiles.

"Poetry in motion," said mission commentator Rob Navias as television cameras aboard the station relayed video of the sleek spaceship slowly backflipping over the cloud-speckled northern Atlantic Ocean.

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Orbiting about 250 miles above Earth, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford spends his days working with a crew studying potential cures for osteoporosis. But he's longing for a golf range and a meal that doesn't come in a ready-to-eat package.

Ford, currently the commander of the International Space Station's Expedition 34 six-person crew, spoke to several dozen St. Raphael Catholic School students Tuesday afternoon via a live video feed.

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During the half-hour chat, students were able to watch Ford float around a portion of the space station as he answered their questions. Ford was only able to hear the students.

"(Floating in zero gravity) is pretty crazy. We get used to it after a while so it becomes very second nature for us to fly around and use handrails to guide us easily inside the space station," Ford said as he performed a variety of zero-gravity gymnastics.

"I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity," he said. "It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth."

Ford joined the space station in late October and is scheduled to return to Earth in mid-March.

"I'm conditioned enough now that I can stay up here as long as they need me to," he said. "But I'm looking forward to coming home."

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Re-Supply Ship Docks with Space Station
An unpiloted Russian cargo ship --- the ISS Progress 50 --- docked to the International Space Station Feb. 11, six hours after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The new Progress linked up automatically to the Pirs Docking Compartment following an accelerated rendezvous that shortened the time from launch to docking, similar to the rendezvous profile executed by two previous Progress vehicles. ISS Progress 50 was loaded with almost three tons of food, fuel, supplies and experiment hardware for the six crewmembers on the orbital laboratory.

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Mary Clare #39;s question for the astronauts on the Space Station

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#askAstro | International Space Station
Question for NASA #39;s International Space Station Hangout.

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NASA will host an hour-long question-and-answer session through Google+ Hangouts with three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Feb. 22 from 11 a.m. to noon ET.

While NASA will preselect the video questions for astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn of NASA and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, it welcomed written questions from Google+, Twitter, and Facebook.

NASA said it will also accept real-time questions that are marked with the #askAstro hashtag on Google+, YouTube and Twitter during the event and that it will open up a thread on its Facebook webpage.

YouTube users can submit video questions tagged with #askAstro by tomorrow, Feb. 12.

NASA has broadcast live onboard many of its space vehicles, with astronauts giving tours of spacecraft and answering questions, but this will be the first time NASA conducts such an event using multiple forms of social media to solicit questions.

The event will be viewable through NASA's Google+ page or through its YouTube channel.

This article was originally published on the Inquirer.

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