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houston station on space to ground

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no shortage of smoke and fire this week

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welcome to space to ground i'm dan

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hewitt orbital atk kick things off with

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their triumphant return to the wallops

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flight facility the company packed its

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sixth cygnus cargo craft with more than

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5 100 pounds of science and supplies for

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the international space station crew

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then it was time to roll out the new

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version of its antares rocket to pad 0-a

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at the mid-atlantic regional spaceport

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being used for the first time since a

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failure in october 2014.

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the rocket engines roared to life monday

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evening and lit up the night sky with a

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flawless ascent one visible from up and

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down the east coast

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now in orbit cygnus will loiter until

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october 23rd when it will arrive to be

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grappled by kate rubins and takuya

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onishi

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meanwhile on the other side of the

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planet the next station crew was

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readying for liftoff

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nasa's shane kimbrough and cosmonauts

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sergey rizhikov and andre borisenko

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underwent final preparations for their

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launch from the baikonur cosmodrome in

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kazakhstan

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the trio went through their final

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checkouts while their rocket and

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spacecraft were once again mated and

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rolled out to the pad this was attempt

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number two for this launch which was

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previously postponed from september so

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engineers could fix an issue with the

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soyuz but everything lined up on

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wednesday for a spectacular show the

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crew suited up in the morning waved

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goodbye to family friends and co-workers

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then made the hike to the top of the

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rocket

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the soyuz lifted off in a cold and

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cloudy day in baikonur and completed the

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nine-minute climb to orbit the three

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crew members are spending two days

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chasing down the station so they can

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conduct control tests and maneuvers in

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their new version of the soyuz the ms-02

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once they arrive on friday they'll dock

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to the poisk module and the station will

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be back at full strike

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