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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 123.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. May 2, 2004
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As the International Space Station orbits the Earth with its new
resident crew in command, its old crew -- Expedition 8 Commander and
NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander
Kaleri -- is now on Earth.
Their ISS Soyuz 7 spacecraft undocked from the Station at 4:52 p.m. EDT
Thursday and landed in Kazakhstan at 8:12 EDT Thursday night.
Expedition 8 spent 194 days in space. During this mission, Foale
became the U.S record-holder for most cumulative time in space. He now
has 374 days in orbit.
Returning to Earth with Expedition 8 is European Space Agency (ESA)
Astronaut Andrˆ Kuipers of the Netherlands. He flew to the Station with
Expedition 9 under an agreement between ESA and the Federal Space
Agency of Russia.
Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS Science Officer
Mike Fincke officially took command of the Station at 1:47 p.m. EDT
Thursday when the hatches to Soyuz 7 were closed.
On Monday, the two crews held a change of command ceremony. As Foale
handed Padalka unofficial command of the "planet's only existing base
camp" in space, Foale said, "We are leaving you with an ISS that is as
capable and worthy as we received it."
Padalka said that he and Fincke "pledge to carry on the legacy of human
space flight that those before us have forged for the future generation of
explorers."
They arrived at the Station in their Soyuz at 1:01 a.m. EDT April 21,
and following leak checks and hatch opening, they entered the orbiting
laboratory at 2 a.m. EDT.
Expedition 9 is the third two-person ISS crew. Padalka, a colonel in
the Russian air force, is a space flight veteran who spent 198 days
aboard the Russian Mir space station in 1999.
Fincke is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, and Expedition 9
is his first trip to space. He is excited about the opportunity.
[ANS thanks NASA News for the above information]
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