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Expedition 50-51 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency along with their backups, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Jack Fischer of NASA and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency conducted final qualification training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City:

 
first episode of national geographys mars series is online, you'll need a US VPN/DNS to watch it
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/videos/novo-mundo/

first half of episode 1 is a kind of history, existing footage of launches and interviews with people like Elon and Robert zubren amongst others. with a bit of the story interwoved

then the second half is the start of the proper series itself and is normal series like.
 
Glaucus said:
first episode of national geographys mars series is online, you'll need a US VPN/DNS to watch it
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/mars/videos/novo-mundo/

first half of episode 1 is a kind of history, existing footage of launches and interviews with people like Elon and Robert zubren amongst others. with a bit of the story interwoved

then the second half is the start of the proper series itself and is normal series like.
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The TV premiere of it in the UK is on Sunday 13th at 9pm:

http://mars.natgeotv.com/uk/
 
Come for a fly-through of the International Space Station. Shot in UHD (4K) using a fisheye lens for extreme focus and depth of field:

 
SpaceX update, looks like good news
http://www.spacex.com/news/2016/09/01/anomaly-updates

short highlite points
Through extensive testing in Texas, SpaceX has shown that it can re-create a COPV failure entirely through helium loading conditions. These conditions are mainly affected by the temperature and pressure of the helium being loaded.

we also plan to resume stage testing in Texas in the coming days
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which means should be on for RTF before the end of the year.

wonder if they'll change the tanks in the long run, or just stick to changing the loading procedure.

i'm assuming elons tweet is what they've recreated.
It might have been formation of solid oxygen in the carbon over-wrap of one of the bottles in the upper stage tanks. If it was liquid it would have been squeezed out but under pressure it could have ignited with the carbon. This is the leading theory right now, but it is subject to confirmation
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Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency leave for home:

 
A brief look at the move of Orion’s service module from the vibration table to the assembly high bay area in Plum Brook’s Space Power Facility:

 
Time for a look back in time (July 20, 1969) with some scary moments during Apollo 11's first manned moon landing:


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The first colour images of the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander's crash site:

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Zoomed-in view of the crater caused by the crash of Europe's Schiaparelli Mars lander on Oct. 19, 2016. Photo taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 1, 2016.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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More:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Schiaparelli_crash_site_in_colour
 
US Navy divers conduct new towing techniques and safety procedures with an Orion Space Capsule test vehicle, called the Boilerplate-Testing Article (BTA), in the Pacific Ocean on October 28:

 
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