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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 i'm amico

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calder

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three new crew members have arrived at

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the station to complete the crew of

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expedition 44.

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first timers nasa astronaut shell

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lingard and japanese astronaut kimia yui

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along with veteran space flier russian

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cosmonaut oleg kononenko had quite a

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busy day leading up to launch after

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waking up they signed their hotel room

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doors and then headed to the launch site

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for suit up after saying farewell to

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their families and friends they waved

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goodbye and boarded their soyuz rocket

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the trio launched from the baikonur

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cosmodrome on thursday morning and took

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about a nine minute trip into orbit

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six hours later the soyuz carrying

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station's newest crew members docked to

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the international space station while

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flying 260 miles above the ocean near

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ecuador at 17 500 miles per hour

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less than two hours after their arrival

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the hatches were open and the new

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station residents joined the onboard

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crew of gennady padalka scott kelly and

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mikhail konienko

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the two space newcomers are now

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connecting to people back on earth from

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their new orbital home follow the wonder

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through their eyes on twitter at astro

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shell and astro kimia

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this week's social media question is

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from programmerdude and he asked how

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does the iss smell well

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many space travelers have described the

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smell of space that is experienced upon

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opening the hatches of a newly arrived

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spacecraft as a distinct odor recently

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space veteran scott kelly related that

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smell to the combination of two

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unrelated odors here on earth

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you know the the smell is a combination

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of

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you know occasionally like an antiseptic

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smell combined with like garbage

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you know but it doesn't really smell bad

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