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  2. Donald Pettit - Wikipedia

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    Pettit again launched to the International Space Station on December 21, 2011, as part of the Expedition 30/31 crew. [13] He and fellow crew members Oleg Kononenko and André Kuipers arrived at the ISS on December 23. [14] Among his off-duty video demonstrations on the space station has been on water as thin film and the Marangoni convection. [15]

  3. Dennis Tito - Wikipedia

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    Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and entrepreneur.During mid-2001, he became the first space tourist to fund his own visit to space, when he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.

  4. International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

  5. Origins of the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    International Space Station in 2011, as seen from STS-134. Origins of the International Space Station covers the origins of ISS. The International Space Station programme represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, NASA's Space Station Freedom including the Japanese Kibō laboratory, and the European Columbus space stations.

  6. Scientific research on the International Space Station

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    [1] [2] The 2005 NASA Authorization Act designated the American segment of the International Space Station as a national laboratory with the goal of increasing the use of the ISS by other federal agencies and the private sector. [3] Research on the ISS improves knowledge about the effects of long-term space exposure on the human body.

  7. History of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    Recent space exploration has proceeded, to some extent in worldwide cooperation, the high point of which was the construction and operation of the International Space Station (ISS). At the same time, the international space race between smaller space powers since the end of the 20th century can be considered the foundation and expansion of ...

  8. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] 20 February 1947 First animals in space (fruit flies). United States V-2 [4] [6] 24 February 1949: First two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, that sets a record altitude of 244 miles (393 km) (WAC Corporal missile mounted onto a V-2 rocket). United States Bumper-5: 14 June 1949: First mammal in space (Albert II, a rhesus monkey). First ...

  9. Assembly of the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    The process of assembling the International Space Station (ISS) has been under way since the 1990s. Zarya , the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity , the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya .