Thirty-six meters! That was far better than the six hundred meters space agency officials would have considered a complete success.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

But they were not the last. NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched six more Apollo flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

As a result, life for the six space station residents was pretty much unaffected, aside from the drama unfolding Saturday 255 miles above the planet.

WSJ: Spacewalkers Replace Space Station Pump

Currently, no astronaut is in space for longer than six months on the International Space Station (ISS).

BBC: Sleep problems could jeopardise future missions to Mars

The six astronauts at the space station are three from Russia, two from the United States and one from Japan.

CNN: Russia postpones new manned space station mission