One of the largest of them, the USS Abraham Lincoln (which I visited in April), weighs almost 100, 000 tons, has a full-time crew of about 5, 000 (including its permanent air wing) and can travel over 30 knots per hour.
"If we don't have Soyuz flying by the middle of November -- the 16th or so, the normal landing time for the last crew -- we would have to de-man ISS at that point, " Suffredini said.
Who knew that a crew of pathetic, small-time real estate salesman (that's Glengarry Glen Ross) could be so heart-wrenching?
The point is also home to the UK's only full-time lifeboat crew.
The yacht sank so quickly that the five-member crew barely had time to alert the U.S. Coast Guard and inflate the rubber dinghy, she says.
The people who operate the clock at NHL games are part of a small, behind-the-scenes crew that handles off-ice details such as keeping penalty time and determining when goals have been scored.
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The two-time Olympic silver medallist and his 10-man crew, who are backed by Chinese funds, are rated as strong outsiders among the eight-yacht race.
The space station crew has been limited to two full-time residents since last year's suspension of space shuttle flights in the wake of the Columbia accident.
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The 28-year-old prince is initially spending his time at Valley as a co-pilot in a crew of four Sea King Helicopters.
The last time an all-female crew took part was in 1997, finishing ninth out of 10 boats.
Then the four-time Oscar-nominated star strides over with her hand out as the crew convulses with laughter at a joke she just cracked.
The crew at The Verge recently scored some hands-on time with the device, and in the process, cleared up much of the speculation regarding Ma Bell's upcoming Atrix 2 -- also known as the Edison.
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The RNLI said the four-strong crew was rescued "in the nick of time" as the boat broke up.
Kate Richardson was among a five-woman crew to row across the ocean in the fastest time ever recorded.
The crew were flying their twin-engined aircraft on a night-time cross country navigation exercise out of RAF Kinloss in Moray on 13 April.
But with his own plane in a near-vertical, nose-down dive, the pilot and his crew had little time to think about the fate of the Chinese pilot.
"Just as the crew of the Monitor fought tirelessly to keep their 'old-time knight in armour' afloat, so have many worked tirelessly since her loss to keep their commitment to her, and to the 16 sailors who answered the call-to-arms of a young nation in peril, and paid the ultimate price, " said Kathryn Sullivan, acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) administrator.
"At the time of the accident, the Deepwater Horizon and its crew had compiled seven consecutive years of operations without a single lost-time safety incident, " the company said in a written statement.
Two-time World Superbike champion Toseland, 28, said the crew switch was sparked by his difficult first season in bike racing's elite class.
At the same time Power's Penske Racing crew was trying to get him re-started, his teammate's race was ending.
"We need to get NASA out of the business of getting crew" to low-earth orbit, she told The Wall Street Journal at the time.
Now, that -- the same construction crew would upgrade all the homes on the same block at the same time.
In addition, the device has the ability to measure, record and stream back in real-time data to flight controllers on Earth, giving doctors better insight into the crew's exercise.
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In a time-honoured system, an owner hires a captain who in turn provides the crew.
But she said she was "totally confident" that the crew did everything to keep the cast safe - no allegations of abuse have been made relating to Mr Owen's time with HTV.
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