Mike Fincke, NASA and International Space Station
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Fincke, 58, is a Pennsylvania native with a wife and three children. He joined NASA in 1996 and is now a veteran of four spaceflights: Expedition 9 in 2004, Expedition 18 in 2009, STS-134 in 2011, and most recently Expedition 74, for which he served as commander.
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee next week will consider extending the planned life of the International Space Station by two years to give companies more time to develop a replacement,
More than a week has gone by since SpaceX helped restore a full crew of astronauts at the International Space Station.
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Russian satellite shatters into debris, sparking urgent space station alert
A Russian anti-satellite missile test destroyed the defunct COSMOS 1408 satellite, generating more than 1,500 pieces of trackable debris and forcing the International Space Station crew into emergency shelter procedures.
Astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured the International Space Station transit the Sun. The NASA astronauts were conducting a spacewalk at the time. Credit: Thierry Legault
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The planned death of the ISS: Why NASA will bring the station down on purpose
The International Space Station has been humanity’s home in orbit for decades — but it cannot last forever. This documentary explains why NASA plans to deliberately crash the station into a remote region of the ocean.
A team of aerospace students and faculty at the University of Kentucky have spent the last year building 12 flight capsules for NASA that will be delivered to the International Space Station ahead of a mission in April.