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This week, Alex brings you the latest on what's happened this week in Space!

Alex covers the SpaceX Jason-3 launch and the experimental landing attempt on the Droneship "Just Read the Instructions" and Britain's-own Tim Peake had his first spacewalk with Tim Kopra, on his third.

There's also talk of the unknown Planet 9 and growing plants in space, in honor of the first Space Flower that ever bloomed!

Enjoy!

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SPACE LINKS:

• Evidence of a Ninth Planet
  http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

• SpaceX's launch of NASA's Jason-3 & Experimental Landing of the 1st stage on a Spaceport Droneship
  http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

• Elon Musk's Instagram of the First stage attempting to land on the Droneship
  https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/

• More info on the Jason-3 Satellite - NOAA
  http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/jason-3/

• New evidence that there is a mysterious 9th Planet in our Solar System, hidden in the Keiper Belt & it's not Pluto!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6poHQ2h00ZA

• Scott Kelly & the First Flower Grown in Space - Zinnia
  http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/flowers

• Plant growth strategies are remodeled by spaceflight | BMC Plant Biology | Full Text
  http://bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2229-12-232

• Plants Grow Fine Without Gravity
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/121207-plants-grow-space-station-science/

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