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Houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground your weekly

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look at what's happening on board the

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International Space Station

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I'm amico counter vehicle traffic is

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really picking up in space Tuesday saw

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SpaceX's dragon cargo ship depart the

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station for a splashdown in the Pacific

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Ocean just five and a half hours later

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the vehicle returned 3,700 pounds of

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cargo and critical science samples to

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earth and Europe's fifth and final

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automated Transfer Vehicle is slated to

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undock from the station on Saturday

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bringing an end to its six-month mission

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the vehicle carried seven tons of cargo

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to space and tested technologies for the

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improvement of future ferrying

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spacecraft the next resupply vehicle

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headed for the station is Russia's

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progress 58 it's scheduled for a

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same-day launch to docking on February

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17th astronaut Terry Virts spent some

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time this week

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setting up the plant rotation experiment

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as plants grow their roots leaves and

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stems form a spiral shape and this study

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hopes to learn more about micro

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gravity's effect on that process a

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better understanding could lead to new

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strategies for growing food crops and

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smaller spaces and with less fertilizer

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results will also help scientists

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develop plant habitats for astronauts

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growing their own food on future deep

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space missions this week's social media

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question asked what is the longest

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anyone has ever spent in space

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cumulatively

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well russian cosmonaut sergei krikalev

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holds the record with 803 days in space

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over the course of six flights but that

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record scene will be broken by cosmonaut

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gennady padalka who will launch next

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month along with ISS one-year crew

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members Scott Kelly and Mikhail

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Kornienko padalka will surpass the

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record for cumulative days in space on

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june 29th

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