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...years, the ungainly assortment of cylinders, panels, nodes and antennae known as the International Space Station had orbited the Earth in the cold of space waiting for a crew. On Thursday November 2, that crew arrived - two Russians and their American commander - aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule, ready to claim the high frontier for all mankind, and for all time...
...This Expedition One crew is not the first human presence aboard the station - space shuttle crews have ferried supplies, equipment and modules to the orbiting vehicle since the project's inception, in November 1998, but this is the first crew to live there, and if all goes according to plan, they will be replaced by a succession of crews with no end. By the time the station wears out in 10 to 25 years, there should be another. Permanent habitation of outer space is the goal...
...such an important event, there was little in the way of ceremony as the crew made its way aboard. Once astronaut Sergei Krikalev had opened the space station hatches, he simply floated through and turned on the lights. The ceremony came later, once a video camera was in place and the three men in blue overall jumpers and white shirts could be seen back on Earth...
...long journey, but we made it," said Bill Shepherd, the lone American aboard. He wasn't talking about the 33 orbits the Soyuz flew while chasing the space station through the heavens, but the years of planning, drafting, wrangling and false starts that had led to the opening of this $100 million monument to the dream of space colonization...
...walls and plush carpeting are far from the most pressing issues involving the MAC. We sincerely hope that the supposed long-term plans for the MAC include more improved and up-to-date cardiovascular equipment and facilities and a more efficient allotment of the 110,000 square-feet of space...