Some 150 British soldiers defended the mission station Rorke's Drift against 4, 000 Zulus in 1879.
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For Williams, this was her second long-term mission aboard the Station, and her first as Expedition commander.
On Thursday, December 3, the target launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on an eleven-day International Space Station mission is scheduled at Cape Canaveral.
On 18 August, the week before the loss of the space station mission, a Proton vehicle failed to put a communications satellite in its proper orbit.
On 18 August, the week before the loss of the space station mission, a Proton rocket failed to put a communications satellite in its proper orbit.
This marks the first commercial cargo mission to the Station.
This marks the first successful cargo mission to the space station by a private company.
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In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.
Atlantis will fly her mission to the International Space Station no earlier than February 10.
The December Soyuz mission will restore the space station crew size to six and continue normal crew rotations.
It flew a Spacelab mission and numerous International Space Station assembly missions and rendezvoused with Russia's Mir Space Station.
Atlantis is set for a construction mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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In August, a Soyuz failure on a mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
In August, a Soyuz failure on an unmanned mission to resupply the space station led to a six-week suspension of flights.
Clayton Anderson, a member of the Expedition 15 mission to the International Space Station, can be seen dancing at about the 2:30 mark.
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Coming after its first successful docking mission with the International Space Station, this marks the first time that a commercial spacecraft will be docking with the International Space Station with cargo.
Moscow (CNN) -- The Russian space agency on Monday postponed the launch of a new manned mission to the International Space Station due to last week's accident in which an unmanned cargo craft was lost, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.
The launch, a supply mission for the International Space Station, was a bit of a bumpy ride, but ultimately arrived as planned, marking the second such success for SpaceX and further quieting critics who wondered whether private companies could really take on the Herculean task of defying gravity.
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They spent a lot of this mission--they delivered the cargo that they had to the space station, but they spent a lot of the mission just making sure that the shuttle itself was safe to fly.
And if the crew assigned to man the deep-space mission travels up separately to the station, it would also mean all the elements for their long-duration flight could be launched without the complications of ultra-safe abort systems that complicate manned rockets.
In the United States, NASA's space station program manager told reporters Monday that the timing of the rescheduled mission could force the temporary de-manning of the space station later this year.
An extra day is expected to be added to the mission at the request of International Space Station managers in order to carry out extra tasks on the station.
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From there, the capsule will be processed and most of its cargo delivered to NASA. This marks the first successful cargo mission to and from the International Space Station by a commercial spaceflight company.
The orbiter was originally expected to fly in June, but technical problems with the new robotic arm on the space station forced NASA to postpone the mission.
"We were really happy to take part in delivering Expedition Three to orbit and they're having a great mission right now up there on the space station, " Horowitz told reporters after inspecting Discovery with fellow shuttle crewmembers Rick Sturckow, Dan Barry and Pat Forrester.
Challenges of physically connecting Dragon with the space station are the toughest elements of the mission.
The 15-day mission will be the 35th orbiter flight to the station.
The NASA administrator said an additional shuttle mission could help stock additional supplies on the international space station.
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The air lock installation is the primary objective of the Atlantis mission, with the two-room chamber allowing space station crews to venture from the station in NASA spacesuits without the assistance of visiting shuttles.
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