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The surprisingly-dramatic, record-setting story behind Scott Kelly's space patches [i]Scott Kelly's astronaut name tags were supposed to be aboard the International Space Station by now. The two blue and gold embroidered badges, each adorned with U.S. Navy astronaut wings and Kelly's name in either English or Russian, were originally among the items that NASA had arranged to send to the orbiting outpost ahead of Kelly beginning his yearlong mission this Friday (March 27). In fact, the pair of name tags had been packed aboard a U.S. commercial cargo freighter that was on its way to the space station last October. That is, until seconds into the flight, when the unmanned rocket exploded in a giant fireball over Virginia...[/i]
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