Space Station Crew Relocates Soyuz To Make Room For Resuply Ship
Thursday, July 02 2009 @ 10:14 PM MST
Three members of the International Space Station Expedition 19/20 crew boarded their Soyuz return spacecraft attached to the station and moved it to a different docking port on Thursday, July 2. The operation was aimed at preparing the International Space Station to make room for docking of the Progress M-67 cargo supply spaceship to the docking port of the Zvezda-SM instrumentation compartment later this month.
The first phase of man's active exploration of the Moon came to an end with the Apollo 17 mission. Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, also a professional geologist, engaged in three moon walks for a total of 22 hours and 2 minutes.
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