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Station Prepares for April Crew Swap
Expedition 51 crew members (from left) Fyodor Yurchikhin and Jack Fischer pose for a portrait in front of the Soyuz spacecraft mockup in Star City, Russia. Credit: NASA/Rob Navias Three Expedition 50...
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Spacesuit Checks Ahead of Monday Crew Departure
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough is seen inside the Quest airlock at the end of a spacewalk on March 24, 2017. The Expedition 50 crew is checking out U.S. spacesuits today and testing tiny internal satellites...
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Trio Packs for Homecoming and Whitson’s Mission Extended
Expedition 50 crew members (from left) Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko will depart the station Monday April 10 ending their stay in space. Three crew members aboard the...
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Crew Packing Soyuz for Monday Landing
This long exposure photograph shows the Earth, its atmospheric glow and stars from the International Space Station. Two NASA astronauts and a European Space Agency astronaut headed into the weekend...
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Astronauts Swap Command Before Monday Homecoming
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (far left) handed over station command Sunday morning to Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson (far right). In between (from left) are Flight Engineers Sergey Ryzhikov and...
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Expedition 50 Trio Says Farewell, Closes Soyuz Hatches
The Expedition 50 crew members are pictured in front of their Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft during pre-launch preparations on Sept. 9, 2016. At 12:45 a.m. EDT, hatches were closed between the International...
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Soyuz Undocks To Carry Trio Back to Earth
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft undocks on time and backs away from the International Space Station’s Poisk module. Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Shane Kimbrough of NASA and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and...
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Expedition 50 Crew Members Back on Earth
The Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying three Expedition 50 crew members is pictured they very moment it landed in Kazakhstan. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA is...
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Kimbrough Returns to Houston, Whitson Continues Stay in Space
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough (left) is greeted by Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa after his arrival in Houston just 24 hours after completing his 173-day mission in space. NASA astronaut Shane...
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Astronauts Release Cygnus Space Freighter From Station
The Orbital ATK Cygnus space freighter is seen moments after being released from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Credit: NASA TV Expedition 50 robotic arm operators Shane Kimbrough of NASA and...
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