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The Expedition 33 crew receives a traditional blessing before departing the Cosmonaut hotel.

Images from the Expedition 33, L-1 Press Conference have been posted to our Flickr set.

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At their TX facility Blue Origin is making great progress on a capsule to send humans into space

Blue Origin successfully launches its suborbital crew capsule 2,307 feet during a pad escape test. Read more:

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The rover used its laser to learn what chemical elements are in a drift of Martian sand!

The Soyuz rocket stands at the pad ahead of launch to tmw@ 6:51a ET The crew wakes in ~6 hrs for final preps.

A big dust storm swept across Kansas last week. Here's the view from our Aqua satellite.

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