A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome to ferry a three-member crew to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Joint ESA/NASA mission using SPICE to explore the centre of the Solar System
An imaging coronal spectrograph called SPICE (Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment) has been selected by ESA and NASA for the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission to explore the innermost regions of the Solar System from the closest distances to the Sun ever attempted.
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Sweden's Ice Hotel to offer trips to space with Virgin Galactic
Officials at Sweden's Ice Hotel have announced a partnership with Virgin Galactic which will allow it to sell tickets into space. The trips, which are expected to take in the Aurora Borealis, are scheduled to depart from the new spaceport in Koruna, northern Sweden, in 2012 and will allow passengers the chance to fly through either the northern lights during the winter, or the endless sun of the Arctic summer.
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