Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Frank De Winne, Sheldon Kalnitsky and Robert Thirsk of the 20th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:34 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a six-month stay in space.Expedition 20 will mark the start of six-person crew operations aboard the International Space Station. All five of the international partner agencies – NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) – will be represented on orbit for the first time.
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Meanwhile, the Expedition 19 crew members worked with an array of science experiments aboard the station Wednesday.
Commander Gennady Padalka worked with a Russian experiment used for predicting natural and manmade disasters. He also spent time on an experiment that researches the growth and development of plants under spaceflight conditions in a special greenhouse facility.
Flight Engineer Mike Barratt worked with an experiment that studies the effects of long-duration space flight on crew member's heart functions and the blood vessels that supply their brain.
Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata completed another session with the Sleep-Wake Actigraphy & Light Exposure during Spaceflight (SLEEP) experiment that monitors the crew member’s sleep and wake patterns.
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2009 International Space Station Calendar
As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station, the agency is offering a special 2009 calendar to teachers, as well as the general public.
The calendar contains photographs taken from the space station and highlights historic NASA milestones and fun facts about the international construction project of unprecedented complexity that began in 1998.
As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station, the agency is offering a special 2009 calendar to teachers, as well as the general public.
The calendar contains photographs taken from the space station and highlights historic NASA milestones and fun facts about the international construction project of unprecedented complexity that began in 1998.
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