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On December 15th astronaut Tim Peake will head into space on-board the Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan. While it only takes 8 minutes and 48 seconds to get into space, it took years of training to prepare for the trip.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev gives a tour of what life is like aboard the International Space Station. He introduced the crew that he's been working with and showed off the equipment and facilities that they use every day.
Elon Musk's spacecraft has successfully launched into space carrying human sperm.
Astronauts currently stationed on the International Space Station, or ISS, prepared pizzas in zero gravity on Monday. Timelapse footage from the station shows the team of astronauts throwing pizzas to one another as they floated in mid-air. ISS Manager Kirk Shireman decided to surprise the astronauts with the ingredients for making pizzas, after the topic was brought up at a live public event.
World renown theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had some choice words for humanity, delivering a warning about climate change and the survival of the human race ahead of this year's edition of the Starmus festival. Stephen Hawking has a rare form of ALS which has paralyzed him over time, only allowing him to communicate using one cheek muscle and a speech generating device.