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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. Re:You can't measure objects in space in lbs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    but that all goes without saying mr. clever cloggs.

  2. congratulations! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant
    In two years the station has grown to more then 200,000 pounds and has had 112 visitors.

    My ex-girlfriend has also, in two years, grown to more than 200,000 pounds and has had 112 "visitors".