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Let’s Get This Done: Remembering Expedition 1, 20 Years On (Part 1)
20 years ago today, #Expedition1’s Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko & Sergei Krikalev launched to @Space_Station as its first permanent crew. More
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ISS At 20: Remembering STS-106, OTD in 2000
As @NASA marks 20 years of @Space_Station habitation, AmericaSpace looks back at STS-106, the mission which prepared the crew quarters for #Expedition1. More
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‘A Clockwork Not of Earthly Pace’: Celebrating the New Year in Space (Part 1)
With a naval officer in command of the International Space Station (ISS), it might have seemed obvious that New Year’s Day 2001 would carry a corresponding nautical tradition. Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd of NASA and his Russian crewmates, Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko, rang in the start of what would turn out to be […] More
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‘Collateral Damage Toll’: Celebrating Christmas Away from the Home Planet (Part 2)
As we observe the traditional date of Christ’s birth, spare a thought for the five men and one woman from a trio of sovereign nations, who are presently in orbit, 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough is presently joined by Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, […] More
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in AmericaSpace, Space, Ben Evans, astronautFifteen Midnights: Celebrating the New Year in Space (Part 2)
In recent days, six pairs of eyes were glued to the windows of the International Space Station (ISS), straining to catch a first glimpse of fireworks around the world, as humanity bade farewell to 2015 and ushered in the New Year. As described in yesterday’s AmericaSpace history article, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and his […] More
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‘Good Luck to the Building’: 15 Years Since STS-97 Powered-Up the Space Station (Part 2)
For more than a decade, we grew used to the sight of shuttles approaching to dock at the International Space Station (ISS). With the exception of five missions, flown between December 1998 and October 2000, when the multi-national outpost was uninhabited, orbiters Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour docked on 31 occasions and their astronauts were welcomed […] More
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‘The First Shuttle Ever to Bounce’: 15 Years Since STS-97 Powered-Up the Space Station (Part 1)
Fifteen years ago, next week, power—in the form of two immense, electricity-generating solar arrays, together with associated batteries and radiators—arrived in spectacular fashion at the International Space Station (ISS). Launched on 30 November 2000, shuttle Endeavour and her STS-97 crew of Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Mike Bloomfield and Mission Specialists Joe Tanner, Carlos Noriega and […] More
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‘Ice Cream Sandwiches’: 20 Years Since the Second Shuttle-Mir Docking Mission (Part 2)
For 15 years, Americans and Russians have lived together, on a continuous basis, aboard the International Space Station (ISS). And for several years prior to that, the also occupied the Mir orbital outpost, whose closed quarters provided a training analog for the challenges—which lay ahead, as the grandest enterprise in peacetime engineering in human history […] More
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‘A Real Thrill’: 20 Years Since the Second Shuttle-Mir Docking Mission (Part 1)
The second is rarely remembered in the same vein as The first. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot upon the Moon—despite his accomplishments to bring space exploration issues to the forefront of popular consciousness—will remain forever overshadowed by Neil Armstrong, the first human to leave his bootprints in the dusty lunar regolith. Al […] More
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NASA Observes 15 Years of Unbroken Residency Aboard International Space Station
No crystal anniversary gifts were exchanged among the Expedition 45 crew—Commander Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Volkov, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Japan’s Kimiya Yui—today (Monday, 2 November), even though their orbital home, the International Space Station (ISS) passed 15 years since the arrival of its first long-duration crew. Instead, […] More
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‘We Can Do This’: 15 Years Since Expedition 1 Opened the Doors to the International Space Station (Part 2)
Fifteen years ago, tomorrow, the first team of astronauts and cosmonauts arrived at the infant International Space Station (ISS) to begin a new era; one which would see no fewer than 220 humans from 17 sovereign nations living and working in low-Earth orbit on a continuous, unbroken basis. In so doing, they would provide our […] More
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‘Let’s Go Get This Done’: 15 Years Since Expedition 1 Opened the Doors to the International Space Station (Part 1)
At 4:21 a.m. EDT on Monday, 2 November, the International Space Station (ISS)—which has, to date, provided an off-the-planet homestead for no fewer than 220 humans from 17 sovereign nations—will pass its 15th year of continuous occupation, extending back to the historic arrival of Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd of NASA and his Russian crewmates, […] More
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