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ISS Expedition 9 Crew Finally Returns to Earth

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sorry-we're-late dept.

neutron_p writes "International Space Station Expedition 9 crewmembers, Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Science Officer Mike Fincke landed on target in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 8:36 p.m. EDT Saturday after 188 days in space."

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  1. Re:Health? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Space has no gravity,"

    So how does the Earth orbit the Sun? I'm tired of that particular bit of ignorance. There's a lot of gravity in earth orbit. That's what keeps things there!

  2. Re:Health? by henni16 · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is not that far fetched; last year there was an experiment at the Freie Universität Berlin about possible physiological and psycholocigal effects of (long time ) space travel.
    I googled for an english article about the experiment.

  3. Re:Health? by orfanotna · · Score: 2, Informative

    They spent 188 days in space. The longest stay in space was 438 days, by a Russian cosmonaut aboard Mir. He's still alive and well as far as I'm aware.