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  • Students and coaches associated with the 2008 National Elementary School Chess Championship team from Stevenson Elementary School, Bellevue, Wash.

    NASA Astronaut Talks With Student Chess Opponents

    NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff met his opponents in the ongoing Earth vs. space chess match Thursday, Oct. 9.

  • Earth vs. Space

    NASA, U.S. Chess Federation to Begin Earth vs. Space Match

    It will be the Earth vs. space in a unique chess match, and you can help Earth win.

  • Make Contact: Astronaut Greg Chamitoff Answers Your Questions

    Astronaut Greg Chamitoff Answers Your Questions: Week 2

    Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, responds to your questions.

  • Greg Chamitoff

    Chess, Live From Space: What's Your Move?

    Mission Control, Houston, and astronaut Greg Chamitoff, in orbit aboard the International Space Station, have begun a new game of chess.

  • Greg Chamitoff

    "HOUSTON, WE HAVE CHECKMATE"

    For more than a thousand years, the game of chess and its predecessors have been played on park tables, in homes, at schools and, in modern times, even on television and in arenas as a spectator sport.

  • Greg Chamitoff

    Make Contact

    Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, is ready to take your questions.

  • NASA astronaut Bill McArthur

    Communication From Space Inspires Young Minds

    Amateur radio on the International Space Station brings technology, science and inspiration into the classroom.

  • Oleg Kononenko

    Russian Spacewalkers Outfit Station's Exterior

    International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko wound up a 5-hour, 54-minute spacewalk after installing one experiment and retrieving another.

  • Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko

    Russian Spacewalkers Retrieve Soyuz Pyro Bolt

    International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko wrapped up a 6-hour, 18-minute spacewalk at 9:06 p.m. EDT Thursday.

  • Progress 29

    Progress Docks to Space Station

    A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the Earth-facing port of the International Space Station's Zarya module at 5:39 p.m. EDT Friday with more than 2.3 tons of fuel, oxygen, air, water, propellant and other supplies and equipment aboard.

  • space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey -- movie image courtesy A.M.P.A.S.

    1968 Science Fiction is Today's Reality

    When 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered 40 years ago, living and working in space full time was science fiction.

  • Volcano

    Every Day is Earth Day on the Space Station

    There may be only one place in the universe which can be the subject of 300,000 and counting photos and still never get old.

  • Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson

    Expedition 16 Crew Lands in Kazakhstan

    Commander Peggy Whitson and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko of the 16th International Space Station crew landed on the steppes of Kazakhstan around 4:30 a.m. EDT Saturday after 192 days in space.

  • NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman

    Station Astronaut Throws Ultimate Fastball for Yankees

    Astronaut Garrett Reisman has thrown the ultimate fastball for the New York Yankees, a pitch that clocked in at better than five miles a second.

  • The crews of Expeditions 16 and 17

    Expedition 17 Crew Docks with Space Station

    Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-12 with the orbiting laboratory at 8:57 a.m. EDT Thursday, marking the beginning of their six-month stay aboard.

  • Expedition 17 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit: Energia.

    Expedition 17 Crew Launches from Baikonur

    Commander Sergei Alexandrovich Volkov and cosmonaut Oleg Dmitrievich Kononenko of the 17th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 a.m. EDT Tuesday to begin a six-month stay in space.

  • Automated Transfer Vehicle

    ATV Jules Verne Docks with Station

    The Jules Verne, the first European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle, docked to the aft port of the International Space Station's Zvezda Service Module at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday.

  • Jules Verne

    Jules Verne ATV prepares for le voyage extraordinaire

    When author Jules Verne imagined in 1865 the story that would become De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon), he envisioned a rocket that would launch people into space using a giant cannon to escape the Earth's gravity.

  • Progress 28

    Progress Docks to Space Station

    A new Progress cargo carrier docked to the International Space Station's Pirs docking compartment Thursday with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water, propellant and other supplies and equipment aboard.

  • Spacewalkers Replace Solar Wing Motor

    Spacewalkers Replace Solar Wing Motor

    Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Dan Tani replaced a motor at the base of one of the International Space Station's solar wings during a 7-hour, 10-minute spacewalk that ended at 12:06 p.m. EST Wednesday.