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Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough perform their second spacewalk on the International Space Station, as part of the Alpha mission, to continue the installation of a solar array outside the station. IMAGES
A Soyuz-MS 02 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station. The spacecraft is carrying Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, Kazakh cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who will spend four months aboard the ISS to conduct experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science before returning home in February.
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough work in the weightlessness of space to install a new solar panel on the International Space Station, a complex and very physical operation that is expected to last about six and a half hours. IMAGES
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet says that "it's really unbelievable to be here on the Space Station", adding that the crew onboard the ISS "can't wait" to start their work. SOUNDBITES
Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and American astronaut Loral O'Hara rocket toward the International Space Station as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise over Ukraine. The crew is expected to dock at the ISS three hours later. The launch comes after Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. IMAGES
Sultan AlNeyadi of the United Arab Emirates becomes the first Arab astronaut to conduct a spacewalk as he exits an International Space Station module and joins NASA astronaut Steve Bowen to perform work aiming to upgrade the ISS's power generation capabilities. IMAGES