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"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.
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The four crew members spent a half-year on the International Space Station conducting dozens of experiments and science research. NASA's Crew-8 mission relieved them on the orbital outpost last week.
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A new study of astronaut blood finds that space travel reduces the expression of 100 genes related to the immune system.
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More than 7,000 pounds of supplies are heading to the station, including science experiments and a new set of solar arrays to boost station's power capacity.
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The return caps a nine-day mission to the International Space Station. The mission was funded by Axiom Space, a company that wants to build and operate the world's first commercial space station.
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The mandatory isolation aims to protect the current station crew from any Earth-based pathogens that could hitch a ride with the four private astronauts.
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The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew returned to Earth late Saturday after spending five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast.
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SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday, including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended monthslong stay.
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SpaceX will try once again to launch a crew of four to the International Space Station just after midnight Thursday from Kennedy Space Center. An attempt Monday was scrubbed in the final minutes of the countdown.
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Mission managers called off the launch with around five minutes remaining in the countdown. The crew will have another chance Thursday to launch to the International Space Station.
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The Soyuz capsule, which carried a crew of three to the station, was leaking coolant. A new capsule will take that crew home instead.
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Two NASA astronauts were scheduled to venture outside the orbiting outpost to install new solar panels.