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2015: The Year in Space (52 images)

Incredible images from mankind's space exploration pour in daily. We collect the best of them for UPI's Year in Space gallery.



This long exposure shows the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the safe return of the first stage of the rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 21, 2015. The historic-making launch and landing was seen live via a webcast. Photo by SpaceX/UPI
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The Soyuz TMA-19M rocket is launched with Expedition 46 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA, and Flight Engineer Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency), Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Malenchenko, Kopra, and Peake will spend the next six-months living and working aboard the International Space Station. NASA photo by Joel Kowsky/UPI
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Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green, in an image produced by the New Horizons composition team and released by NASA on December 24, 2015. The team used a pair of Ralph/LEISA instrument scans obtained from a mean range of 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers) on July 14, 2015. The resolution is about 7 kilometers per LEISA pixel. Three infrared wavelength ranges (2.28-2.23, 1.25-1.30 and 1.64-1.73 microns) were placed into the three color channels (red, green and blue, respectively) to create this false color Christmas holiday portrait. Photo by NASA/UPI
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The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returns and lands after lifting off and sending the second stage into orbit with satellites at Cape Canaveral, Florida on December 21, 2015. The historic-making launch and landing was seen live via a webcast. Photo by SpaceX/UPI
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