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Gerbils, mice perish as Russian spacecraft returns to Earth

May 20, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A menagarie of animals launched to space last month has arrived back on Earth — with a few casualties for the voyage. Remove this ad

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Happy Easter Sunday from the ISS ! Crew Hunts Easter Eggs & Goodies

March 31, 2013

Hush, hush ! Don’t’ tell his crew, but Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has secretly planned a delightful space station surprise sure to also warm the hearts of Earth’s children celebrating the joyous occasion of this Easter Sunday – and there’s delicious photos below too. They’re going on an Easter egg hunt ! Remove this ad

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Freaky Fast Delivery: Progress Blasts Off, Docks at ISS Hours Later

February 11, 2013

The Progress 50 resupply ship has now arrived at the International Space Station, just hours after it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch took place at 9:41 a.m. EST, (14:40 UTC) today (February 11, 2013) and it took only a four-orbit journey to rendezvous with the ISS, docking at 3:34 pm EST (20:35 [...]

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ESA, Roscosmos Move Ahead with Plans for ExoMars Mission

November 20, 2012

Artist concept of an ExoMars rover. Credit: ESA After NASA was forced to back out of the joint ExoMars mission with the European Space Agency due to budget constraints, it looked like the exciting rover-orbiter mission might not happen. However, ESA went elsewhere looking for help, and has now announced a tentative cooperative arrangement with [...]

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From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth

May 11, 2012

Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto a globe model — it’s the full disk of our planet in captured as a single, enormous 121 megapixel image, acquired by Russia’s Elektro-L weather-forecasting satellite. Remove this ad

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