The first Zarya module of the station is set for launch on November 20.

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Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.

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The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.

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The first module works with basic vocabulary, required for the understanding of simple questions and elaboration of small sentences and dialogues.

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