Nyberg, 43, spent two weeks in space in 2008 as part of a U.S. space shuttle crew.
Usachev, Voss and Helms, having completed 156 days on Alpha, now become members of the space shuttle crew.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was staged for a possible rescue mission in case Space Shuttle Atlantis gets into trouble while the crew is fixing the Hubble Telescope.
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.
In 1992, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour took off with a crew that included Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
President Reagan had planned to deliver his annual State of the Union address on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded killing all seven crew members aboard.
Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 crew carried it into orbit in May 2011, where it was installed on the station's truss structure.
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The two space station crews, along with the four Discovery astronauts, continued unloading supplies from the Italian-built Leonardo cargo module, a shiny giant cylinder that the shuttle crew attached to the space station on Monday.
The two space station crews, along with the four Discovery astronauts, have finished unloading supplies from the Italian-built Leonardo cargo module, a shiny giant cylinder that the shuttle crew attached to the space station on Monday.
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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One example that See uses in the classroom: the 1986 Challenger disaster, when the space shuttle blew apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing the seven crew members.
The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
Space shuttle Discovery docked with the orbiting outpost Sunday afternoon, bringing up the new crew: U.S. commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
The shuttle Endeavour commander called CNN Space Correspondent Miles O'Brien on Monday from the astronaut crew quarters here at the Cape.
The crew exploration vehicle will be capable of ferrying astronauts and scientists to the space station after the shuttle is retired.
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Suffredini said Monday that space station crew is well-supplied due to the delivery of goods by the final U.S. shuttle mission carried out by Atlantis last month.
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