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MISSE-6 Comes Home
Several hundred materials samples returned to Earth with the STS-128 space shuttle crew.
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Model Car, Airplane Highlight Discovery Crew
Models join flags and medallions as commemorations of Discovery's flight to the International Space Station.
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Do Tread on Me
On Earth, we all know that exercise is good for us. But do we know exactly how good?
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Preflight Interview: Rick Sturckow, STS-128 Commander
"It’s one of the best parts of our job I think, getting out and thanking the people who build all this hardware and even the design folks, all the maintainers it takes to keep the support equipment going, just the whole big picture."
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Preflight Interview: José Hernández, STS-128 Mission Specialist
"It’s time that we start exploring other worlds. And future generations are going to thank us for it."
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Preflight Interview: Kevin Ford, STS-128 Pilot
"During the flight I’m really looking forward to the ascent, that acceleration for eight and a half minutes."
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Preflight Interview: Patrick Forrester, STS-128 Mission Specialist
"To go up there to the space station is pretty phenomenal to start with and to open the hatch and see folks from your office that you’ve trained with and that you work with that have been living in space for a long period of time is pretty unique."
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Preflight Interview: Christer Fuglesang, STS-128 Mission Specialist
"I think the space station’s really a prime example of how people from all the world can work together"
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Preflight Interview: Danny Olivas, STS-128 Mission Specialist
"We’re out there, we’re exploring space, we’re setting the path for the future and humanity will continue to explore space from here and this is the first step."
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Preflight Interview: Nicole Stott
"I think it’s a really exciting time not only for the space station program but also for just figuring out how to better live and work in space."