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Space Station Live: October 7, 2015
A video update from mission control Houston on activities aboard the International Space Station. (Membership required)
VideoOTD…Oct. 7 and STS-112
#OTD in 2002...Atlantis launched the outward expansion of the space station's truss backbone

Workers complete $15 million in repairs to Antares launch pad
Repair crews in Virginia have restored the Antares booster's launch pad -- damaged in an explosive rocket crash nearly one year ago -- to flight-ready status as the Orbital ATK launcher moves toward a return-to-flight in 2016.

Hurricane Joaquin eyed from space station
Astronauts on the International Space Station spied powerful Hurricane Joaquin spinning in the Bahamas in a spectacular photo showing the eye of the storm Friday.

Russian resupply vessel blasts off from Kazakhstan
A Progress supply craft loaded with 3.1 tons of cargo lifted off Thursday from Kazakhstan, launching on a six-hour pursuit of the International Space Station culminating with a smooth docking to the research lab's aft port.
VideoOTD…Sept. 30 and STS-68
#OTD in 1994...Endeavour launched on the second Space Radar Laboratory mission

HTV supply ship sets course for re-entry
Heading for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with several tons of trash, Japan's fifth HTV cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Monday after overcoming a last-minute snag in the lab's robotics system.

Live coverage: Japanese cargo craft departs International Space Station
Live coverage of the departure of a Japanese cargo craft from the International Space Station. The fifth HTV cargo freighter delivered a 9,500-pound package of food, spare parts and experiments.
VideoOTD…Sept. 25 and STS-86
#OTD in 1997...Atlantis launched on the seventh joint docking mission with Russia's space station Mir

Planet Labs takes rash of launch failures in stride
No one had ever lost 26 satellites at once until a launch failure bit Planet Labs last year, temporarily setting back the San Francisco startup's ambition to map the globe every day.