In a photo provided by NASA, the Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket launches with the Cygnus spacecraft aboard, on Sunday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Bill Ingalls/AP hide caption
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Leave it to the Italians to design a capsule-based espresso system for astronauts who miss their morning cup. Andrea Guermani/Courtesy of Lavazza hide caption
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks during a news conference in Berlin on Monday. Bolden said no single country was indispensable to the International Space Station's success. Michael Sohn/AP hide caption
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From left: U.S. astronaut Steve Swanson, and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev prior to the launch of their Soyuz-FG rocket Wednesday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Dmitry Lovetsky/AP hide caption
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Russian personnel are the first to meet space station crew members when they return to earth. Bill Ingalls/NASA hide caption
Despite Diplomatic Tensions, U.S.-Russia Space Ties Persist
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A photo of Sochi's Olympic Park as seen from the International Space Station. NASA hide caption
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Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio replace a pump on the International Space Station during a spacewalk last month. NASA/Reuters/Landov hide caption
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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy performs a spacewalk in May to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station. On Saturday, two astronauts will perform the first in a series of similar spacewalks to fix a broken cooling line on the ISS. AP hide caption
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Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio in the International Space Station's Columbus lab last month. NASA hide caption
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Commander Oleg Kotov (left) and Sergey Ryanzansky, preparing for a spacewalk aboard the ISS on Nov. 9. NASA hide caption
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The spectacular crash. YouTube.com hide caption