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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.
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.