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The unplanned space walk, some 250 miles above Earth, was necessary after astronauts were unable to fix the problem from inside the station.

Elon Musk said shortly after the launch that though the company will test it, this rocket will be stored away somewhere safe.

Following a dominating performance against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, the Washington Redskins moved to 7-7 on the season and in sole possession of first place in the NFC East division.

The ability to land vertically is prized because it allows rockets to be reused, substantially reducing costs and increasing the frequency of launches.

They have learned about the importance of being healthy in space and how daily life compares to that on earth, and even created a website for Tim Peake using HTML and CSS.

We’d popped out for about an hour to see our daughter who lives nearby, came home to an answer phone message, “Hello, this is your son from the International Space Station”.

The vehicle is not in its usual spot and hence Mike Hopkins, another astronaut at the Mission Control warned Kelly and Kopra from accidentally contacting the MT.

Sir Alex Ferguson reportedly attended emergency meetings in which Manchester United’s bosses discussed the possibility of appointing Jose Mourinho.

Jeff Bezos’s private spaceflight company, Blue Origins, successfully landed a rocket in June, although it only went into suborbital space, not all the way into orbit.

NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra conducted a space walk early on December 21, 2015 to prepare the International Space Station for various activities, including the docking of a Russian spacecraft.

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SpaceX’s audacious vertical rocket landing on Monday lays a critical foundation for reusable rockets that could help humans colonize Mars, according to the company’s CEO Elon Musk.

After taking off in the Soyuz FG rocket at 11.03am United Kingdom time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan along with his two colleagues – Russian commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, Peake was already downing four cans of beans an hour.

Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Tim Kopra are expected to be outside the spacecraft for around three hours.

This graphic provided by SpaceX illustrates the landing sequence of the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket.