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During STS-106, Sept. 11, 2000, Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist, was captured
on film by his spacewalking colleague, astronaut Edward T. Lu, during the 6-hour-plus spacewalk
the two performed on the exterior of the International Space Station.
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The International Space Station in 2001.
Space Shuttle Atlantis carries the S1
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STS-102 in October 2002.
The Expedition Six crewmembers pose for a crew photo in the Destiny laboratory
on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are astronauts Donald R.
Pettit, NASA ISS science officer; Kenneth D. Bowersox, mission commander; and
cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, flight engineer representing Rosaviakosmos.
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member on board the Space Shuttle Endeavour following the undocking of the two spacecraft. Endeavour pulled away from
the complex Dec. 2, 2002, as the two spacecraft flew over northwestern Australia. The newly installed Port One (P1) truss
now complements the Starboard One (S1) truss in center frame.
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Oct. 12, 2002, astronauts David A. Wolf (left) and Piers J. Sellers, both STS-112 mission specialists,
participate in the mission’s second session of extravehicular activity (EVA). Wolf is anchored to a foot
restraint on the International Space Station’s (ISS) Canadarm2 while Sellers traverses along the airlock
spur, a route used by spacewalkers to get from the Quest airlock on the station to the outpost's truss.
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*OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION
For more about the food system for space travelers, read the JSC fact sheet
“Space Food” on the web at
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/
For more about sleeping in space, go to http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/kids/L&W/
sleep.htm .
For others, go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html
More fact sheets on the Web can be found at http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/
kscpao/educate/docs.htm
NASA: Explore. Discover. Understand.
FS-2003-04-001-KSC
John F. Kennedy Space Center