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The International Space Station welcomed its first long-term residents on Nov. 2, 2000, when Expedition 1 arrived. The milestone marked the start of the station’s crewed long-duration presence in orbit.
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The International Space Station welcomed its first long-term residents on Nov. 2, 2000, when Expedition 1 arrived. The milestone marked the start of the station’s crewed long-duration presence in orbit.
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk spent seven hours and 11 minutes outside the International Space Station installing and unfurling its seventh new roll-out solar array. The upgrade is intended to support the outpost’s power needs through its planned retirement in 2030; the EVA also marked the 100th U.S. ISS spacewalk under the stated counting method.
Joshua Kutryk is scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station on Oct. 29, marking the first spacewalk by a Canadian astronaut in more than seven years. The event will be broadcast live, according to the report.
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Voyager will manage Interstellar Lab’s BioPod EDEN ISS experiment, which will study plant growth in microgravity. The work is intended to inform future space agriculture, linking an ISS research project with technologies for growing plants beyond Earth.
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Australia has submitted a counteroffer to the European Space Agency over the cost of sending astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg on a mission to the International Space Station. The proposed funding has drawn domestic criticism, with the government accused of haggling over the price of the historic mission.
On Oct. 23, 2007, NASA’s space shuttle Discovery carried the Harmony module to the International Space Station on mission STS-120. The launch marked the start of Harmony’s journey to the station, where the module became part of its expanding orbital infrastructure.
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Expedition 75 received four new crew members aboard the International Space Station at the beginning of October, as Crew-12 departed and handed over to Crew-13. A Dragon spacecraft also brought new cargo to the orbiting outpost, supporting its continuing crewed operations.
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