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International Space Station Turns Two

Posted by michael on from the space-is-wide-and-good-friends-are-too-few dept.

RedWolves2 writes "Today is ISS's second anniversary of Operations. Two years ago today NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev first boarded the ISS. In two years the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors."

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  1. 112 visitors in two years? by payndz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow, a hell of a lot more than me. I need to get a life... (sniff)

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  2. Re:Whats it for? by bmwm3nut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    7) Profit :)

  3. Sour grapes by randomErr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I submitted this article Friday afternoon.

    2002-11-01 20:48:41 First International Space Station turns 2 (articles,space) (rejected)

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