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SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with International Space Station

The SpaceX "Resilience" Crew Dragon spacecraft that launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts on board docked with the International Space Station on Monday.

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SpaceX, NASA launch first operational commercial crew mission to space

SpaceX on Sunday launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA's first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.The new

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Russia to lift orbit of int'l space station

Russia plans to lift the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to create "ballistic conditions" for the arrival of a manned spacecraft in October

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China's largest freshwater lake sees record water rise

The water level of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, China has risen to the highest level since modern records began. Poyang Lake is China's largest freshwater lake.At midnight S

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Downpours continue to lash Chinese provinces

Downpours are continuing to hit several Chinese provinces. In central China's Hubei Province, days of rainfall has caused water levels in five major lakes to exceed th

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Urgent: 5 killed in Taliban attack on police station in N. Afghanistan

Three police officers and two Taliban militants were killed and 16 people wounded in a Taliban attack on a district police station in Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan Saturday night, a loca

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American astronauts dock at ISS in SpaceX mission

The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying two American astronauts docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.The spacecraft was launched by NASA and SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center i

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SpaceX to make history in first astronaut launch

(Photo by SpaceX) (Scroll left and right to learn more)Elon Musk's SpaceX is set to launch the first crewed spaceflight by a private company on Wednesday, May 27.NAS

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Roscosmos launches Victory Rocket to ISS: statement

Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation launched Saturday a special Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket, named the Rocket of Victory, with the Progress MS-14 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Stat

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Just In: France becomes fourth country to have over 10,000 COVID-19 deaths

A biologist from Eylau Unilabs Analysis Laboratories is pictured at a COVID-19 drive-through testing station near Champs de Mars in Paris, France, April 7, 2020. (Photo by Aurelien Morissard/Xinhua)PA

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Hubei will resume railway station service outside of Wuhan

China's Hubei Province will resume the inbound and outbound operations of railway stations outside of Wuhan starting Wednesday.

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Just in: Italy closes theatres, cinemas, museums across the country amid COVID-19 outbreak: media

People walk past Roma Termini railway station in Rome, Italy, on March 6, 2020. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua) ROME, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Italy closes theaters, cinemas, museums across the countr

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Mississippi house fire kills mother, six children: media

A house fire in Clinton, southeastern U.S. state of Mississippi, killed a mother and her six children on Saturday, according to media reports. The victims range in age from one to 33 years, reported

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NASA astronaut back on Earth after record-breaking spaceflight

NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth on Feb. 6, 2020 following a record-breaking mission. (Roscosmos photo) NASA astronaut Christina Koch spent 328 days and 14 hours in space, setting a r

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Emergency alert from Canada's nuclear power station in error

Pickering nuclear power station in Ontario, Canada issued an emergency alert in error Sunday morning, local power generating authority said. Ontario Power Generation tweeted "the alert regarding Pick

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Canada's Pickering nuclear power station issues emergency alert

Pickering nuclear power station in the Canadian province of Ontario issued an emergency alert Sunday morning, the provincial government said. The province said an incident was reported at the station

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Astronaut Leroy Chiao discusses the latest in space exploration

04:13 CGTN's Gerald Tan discusses space exploration with former NASA astronaut and international space station commander Leroy Chiao.