He spent a total of more than 52 days in space, including three space walks.

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Haignere, an air force pilot who visited Mir for three weeks in 1993, plans two space walks during his mission.

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Also on tap are four space walks focusing on the station's two Solar Alpha Rotary Joints, which allow the solar panels to track the sun.

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Our contributing editor for watches, Jack Forster, came up with ten timepieces that are exemplars of style for the buck, including the only watch that NASA has approved for space walks.

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Neither of them had ever been there before that day, and neither ever went back, so it remained a bright free space in their imaginations: sunlit stately walks, aisles of tall flowers, fountains splashing.

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Today astronauts from different backgrounds, countries and walks of life are working together aboard the International Space Station.

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And I think private citizens from all walks of life will be able to take the experience, the spiritual experience of space, the emotional experience of space and relate it back to the common person and therefore we could all as people of this world incorporate space in our art, in our opera, in our music.

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