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Soyuz TMA-22 docks to the International Space Station two days after liftoff from Baikonur. Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Dan Burbank join the crew already at the station.

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NASA dixit:

“NASA is focusing its 50 years of launch experience on hardware and systems that will revolutionize future processing and liftoffs. Instead of developing complex infrastructure centered on one vehicle, the 21st Century Ground Support Systems Program is building facilities, launch platforms and other structures that assemble, prepare and launch many kinds of rockets and spacecraft. The approach is expected to make NASA\’s Kenendy Space Center a multi-use spaceport suitable for commercial missions, sending astronauts to the International Space Station and eventually flights to distant space destinations including Mars.”

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A Soyuz-FG launch vehicle rolled out with Soyuz TMA-22 on November 11, 2011. Soyuz TMA-22 lifted off on November 13 from Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 29 crew members Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin, and Dan Burbank.

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Awesome trailer! Kennedy’s speech was and will always be truly inspiring…

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On November 9, 2011, the J-2X rocket engine was put to a 500-second firing test at NASA\’s Stennis Space Center. The J-2X engine will be used as an escape engine for the Orion spacecraft. As a component of the new Space Launch System, J-2X will help NASA explore deep space.

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A Zenit-2 launch vehicle rolled out with the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome on November 6, 2011. Zenit-2 lifted off with Phobos-Grunt on November 9. The spacecraft failed to fire the escape engines and it is right now stuck in orbit around the Earth. The Russian Federal Space Agency makes efforts to save the mission.

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