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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.
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Message 1
"The past three weeks have been a blur of new sensations, out-of-this-world experiences, and hard work."
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Message 2
"I’m sealed inside the descent capsule of the Soyuz vehicle, while my crew-mates perform their first Russian spacewalk (EVA). At this moment Sergei and Oleg are in their spacesuits and going through their checkouts before opening the hatch."
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"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.
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Make Contact
Astronaut Greg Chamitoff, aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth, is ready to take your questions.
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Expedition 18
Commander E. Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott will launch to the station on Oct. 12, 2008. Gregory E. Chamitoff, Sandra H. Magnus and Koichi Wakata will serve as flight engineers during Expedition 18.
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Astronaut Terry Virts Visits Baltimore
NASA astronaut Terry Virts throws out the first pitch at a Baltimore Orioles game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Mike Massimino, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"Without Hubble we wouldn't have the information, and without the human spaceflight program going up there to repair it and keep it going and improving it we wouldn't have all the images that Hubble sends us."
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Andrew Feustel, STS-125 Mission Specialist
"I think for humankind, not just our nation, it's important for us to continue the exploration that is so natural and innate to us."
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Preflight Interview: Scott Altman, STS-125 Commander
"We can’t travel 13½ billion light-years, but when Hubble brings that to us, it’s like we’re there."