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November 02, 2015

Space station marks 15 years inhabited by astronauts
Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Nov 02, 2015
Astronauts celebrated 15 years of circling the Earth aboard the International Space Station Monday, a new milestone for an orbiting space lab that some say deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. With operations expected to last another decade, the world's space agencies are now looking to the outpost to provide key data on how future space pioneers may withstand the rigors of venturing further, perhaps even to Mars. "We do a lot of experiments up here but I think the most important experiment is th ... read more

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