The International Space Station

Astronaut Scott Kelly tests his fine motor skills as part of his year-long mission on the International Space Station. This task tested Kelly's ability to use his fine motor skills: pointing, dragging, copying a shape, and rotating - on an Apple iPad, after extended time in space. Image courtesy of NASA.

Reversible genetic changes were discovered in astronaut Scott Kelly who spent a year in space compared to his brother Mark who remained on Earth

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The European Space Agency's ExoMars all-terrain vehicle that should take off to Mars in 2020. Figure: European Space Agency (ESA)

Europe approved a budget of 1.4 billion dollars for the Mars rover and the extension of the International Space Station

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The Progress 65 cargo spaceship during preparation for launch. Photo: Roscosmos

A Russian cargo spacecraft crashed on the way to the space station

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The BEAM module in its inflated configuration, May 28, 2016. Source: NASA TV

The new module of the International Space Station has been successfully inflated

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The observation unit of the International Space Station known as the "Cupola". Source: NASA.

Scary, but not dangerous: a small crack was detected in one of the observation windows of the International Space Station

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Bigelow's inflatable module is attached to the International Space Station. Image: Bigelow Aerospace

Living in a bubble: Inflatable modules could be the future of space housing

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Astronaut Scott Kelly in his daily work on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

"It seems to me that I've been there forever; sometimes you go crazy in space"

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Kelly with Jill Biden, Dr. John Holden from the White House and with NASA Administrator Charles Bouldin (Photo: NASA)

After 340 days in space: Scott Kelly grew 5 cm

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The only place you might still find an American and a Russian hugging, on an official mission, is the International Space Station. Astronaut Scott Kelly (left) and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Source: NASA.

How can you watch 10,000 sunrises and sunsets in one year?

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Scott Kelly. From his Twitter account.

After almost a year in space, Scott Kelly is on his way back home: "I could have continued for another 100 years"

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A simulation of Dream Chaser docked at the International Space Station. Source: Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Meet "Dream Chaser", the new member of NASA's fleet of supply spacecraft to the International Space Station

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The zinnia plants growing on the "Veggie" experimental system on the International Space Station. Source: NASA.

NASA's plants on the space station wither

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The International Space Station, as photographed from the space shuttle Atlantis in 2010. Source: NASA.

NASA plans to stop supporting the International Space Station in about a decade - focus on Mars

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Astronauts Yuri Melanchenko (Roscosmos), Tim Kupra (NASA) and Tim Peake (European Space Agency - United Kingdom). Source: NASA.

The 46th crew of the International Space Station docked at the station after a successful launch

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The members of the 45th crew sit in their Soyuz spacecraft before returning to Earth. From left to right: Kyle Lingren of the United States, Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Kimaya Yue of the Japanese Space Agency

The 45th crew of the space station landed safely in Kazakhstan - for the first time a night landing

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Launch of Orbital's Cygnus supply spacecraft aboard a ULA Delta V rocket from Cape Canaveral, 6/12/15. Photo: NASA

The supply spacecraft Cygnus returns to the space station, this time on a replacement rocket

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American astronauts Reid Weissman (right) and Beer Wilmore work on the International Space Station on October 1, 2014. Photo: NASA

The space station is open for business - experiments by scientists who are not related to the space field will also be possible

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Astronaut Reynold Ewald at the IAC conference in Jerusalem, 16/10/15. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"If someone says that in two years he will be able to fly to Mars, that is simply not true, and does not fit with the spacecraft development schedule"

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Astronaut Clayton Anderson watches a drop of water and its reflection in the space shuttle Discovery. The cohesion of water in microgravity is different than on Earth. Photo: NASA

Save Mark Watney - the technology. Part 2: Water and Air

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A large lightning storm as photographed from the International Space Station by the Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, 10/9/15. Photo: European Space Agency

The Danish astronaut photographed giant elves from the space station

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An international team of astronauts from the USA, Russia, Japan, Denmark and Kazakhstan are working together on the International Space Station until September 11. Photo: NASA TV

A rare sight today: nine astronauts at the same time on the space station

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The Veggie Plant Growing System on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The meal is ready - the members of the space station team ate for the first time lettuce that they grew themselves

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Screenshot from the interactive panoramic tour of the International Space Station, on the European Space Agency website. In this screen you can see the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforti, against the background of the cupola component, a component that sticks out from NODE 3 of the station, and consists of seven windows from which you can see the Earth and the rest of the station. Photo: European Space Agency

The European Space Agency presents: an interactive tour of the International Space Station

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Astronaut Andreas Mogelsen. Photo: European Space Agency

Prof. Yoav Yair will accompany a reconstruction of Ilan Ramon's lightning experiment by a Danish astronaut

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A view from the camera of the Progress 60 spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station, 3/7/15. Photo: NASA TV

After the failures - the Progress 60 supply spacecraft arrived at the space station

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Flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency in a Star Trek series uniform on the background of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on April 17, 2015 full of supplies. Photo: NASA.

The 43rd crew of the space station landed a month late, including an Italian astronaut who broke the record for women staying in space

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Samantha Cristoforti, an astronaut from the European Space Agency on the International Space Station. Her return to Earth is delayed. Photo: NASA

About three weeks after the crash of the cargo spacecraft destined for the space station - failure of a second launch to Russia * The launch of the astronauts to the station was postponed

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A long trip on the way to Mars; NASA sends an identical twin and examines how a year's stay in space affects the astronauts

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Members of the International Space Station's 43rd crew take a break from training for a group photo. From the left, Scott Kelly from NASA, Gandy Padalka and Mikhail Kurinenko from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Kelly and Kurinenko will spend a whole year on the space station. Photo: Image Credit: Roscosmos/GCTC

Successful launch of an astronaut and a cosmonaut who will spend a year on the space station

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The International Space Station as seen on April 17, 2010 from the space shuttle Discovery as it left the station

Fear of an ammonia leak in the space station necessitated the evacuation of the American wing. Peace to the team

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North America is illuminated by the moonlight and the cities in a photo from space. Photo: shutterstock

Earth live in high resolution from space (video)

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Samantha Cristoforti holds the Sokol spacesuit that will be used by her as the 42nd crew member of the International Space Station

An espresso machine and a Thanksgiving meal are among the things the new crew members brought to the International Space Station

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Artist's rendering of the ATV-5 spacecraft approaching automatic docking with the space station. Figure: European Space Agency ESA

The ATV-5 mission, the cargo spacecraft to the space station named after the Big Bang theorist Georges Lametta, has launched

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A fruit fly laboratory that will be launched to the International Space Station

Fruit flies will be sent to the International Space Station

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A close-up of a Made In Space XNUMXD printer. PR photo. Inc. Credit: Made In Space

NASA will send a XNUMXD printer into space to print components and spare parts

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Members of the International Space Station's 39th crew adjust back to Earth's gravity immediately after landing in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz spacecraft. Photo: NASA TV

The members of the 39th crew of the International Space Station have landed after six months in space

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The Dragon spacecraft, as seen from the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, flies under its own power after being separated from it. Photo: NASA TV

SpaceX launched a cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station with a facility for growing food inside

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Red romaine lettuce plants grow in a prototype vegetable patch on a space mission. The facility will be launched inside the third supply spacecraft of the SpaceX Dragon model, today, April 14 from Cape Canaveral. Photo: NASA/Brian Unte

Update: The launch of the supply spacecraft to the space station was delayed due to a malfunction in the launcher

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Members of the 39th crew of the International Space Station arrive at the station, 27/3/14. Photo: NASA TV

The astronauts' arduous journey has come to an end: they managed to connect to the International Space Station after more than two days in Soyuz

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At the Integration Center at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Steve Swanson (left), and his Russian colleagues Alexander Dekvortstov (center) and Oleg Artemyev train next to the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft on March 21, 2014, ahead of its launch on the 26th of the month. Photo: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

The International Space Station was diverted from its orbit to avoid collision with space debris * Three astronauts will take off this week

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The late Ilan Ramon on the Columbia shuttle, on flight STS-107. Photo: NASA

Kol Israel: Israel is in talks to launch a second astronaut

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The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station, 9/1/14. Photo: NASA TV

The private spacecraft - the Israeli experiments

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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket launch on January 9, 2014 followed by the launch at the Wallops Space Center, Virginia on a supply mission to the International Space Station on the Cygnus spacecraft. Photo: NASA

Another successful launch for a private American supply spacecraft to the space station

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Rick Mastrazio on a spacewalk on mission STS-118. Photo: NASA

No need for a third spacewalk: the astronauts finished installing the replacement pump

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Astronaut Rick Mastracchio works outside the International Space Station during the first of a series of spacewalks to replace a broken ammonia pump module. Photo: NASA TV

Watch: The astronauts removed the malfunctioning ammonia pump on the International Space Station

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Crew 35 members Chris Cassidy (left) and Tom Meshburn on a May 11, 2013 spacewalk to scan and replace the suction control box on the space station. Photo: NASA.

A serious malfunction at the space station - one of the cooling systems stopped working * Hello to the crew members

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Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazhensky's helmet camera captured his colleague Oleg Kutov waving the Olympic torch outside the International Space Station during today's (Saturday, 9/11/13) spacewalk. Photo: NASA TV

The Olympic torch went on a spacewalk * and will return to Earth tomorrow

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Astronauts from crews 37,38, 39 and XNUMX during a press conference on the International Space Station. In the front row, the American Karak Nyberg, the Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin and the Italian Luca Parmitano. In the second row (also from left to right) the American Michael Hopkins, and the Russians Oleg Katutev and Serhiy Rizinsky. In the back row is the American Rick Masercho, the Japanese Kyuchi Wakata and the Russian axomonaut Mikhail Tyurin. Screenshot: NASA TV

Nine astronauts at the same time on the space station * two of them left with the Olympic spacewalk torch

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In the photo: an Israeli student asks a question live to the International Space Station, 23/10/13 Photographer: Yoav Dudkewitz

In space, the sense of taste deteriorates - that's why the astronauts like to eat spicy food

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A group photo of all members of the 37th crew of the space station upon the arrival of the three astronauts on September 26. Photo: NASA

The 37th crew of the International Space Station is launched (video)

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