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DM-2 Test
NASA and ATK successfully tested a five-segment solid rocket motor. The motor, dubbed DM-2, is the largest and the most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. It is designed to generate up to 3.6 million pounds of thrust at launch.
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Chris Hadfield to be the First Canadian Commander of the ISS
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will take command of the station during the second half of his third space mission. Hadfield will launch aboard a Soyuz rocket in December 2012, and spend six months on the station as part of the crew of Expedition 34/35. He will return to Earth in a Soyuz capsule in June 2013.
Hadfield is the only Canadian to board the Russian Mir space station, in 1995, during his first space flight, while he served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-74. He is also the first Canadian mission specialist and the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit.
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