This time he wasn't flying alone but in the company of six multinational crewmates.

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It is believed crewmates put him in a taxi outside a bar after a night out, but he failed to return to the ship.

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On the one hand, all but one of Mr Kerry's crewmates from the two Swift Boats he commanded in Vietnam have rallied to his side.

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For example, Christopher Columbus was able to inspire investors and crewmates with his vision of a shortcut to India and bountiful new discoveries.

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Kelly's crewmates on Endeavour's final mission are pilot Greg Johnson and mission specialists Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and Roberto Vittori of the European Space Agency.

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To help Culbertson and his two Russian crewmates, Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin, get familiar with their new job site, NASA scheduled time for the new crew to talk to the departing crew.

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"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.

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