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September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks - 9/11 Attacks
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. Read about 9/11/01 as viewed by Frank Culbertson on the International Space Station. Learn the reaction of astronauts including Frank Culbertson aboard the International Space Station as the World Trade Centers fell to terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001. Find out the effect of the 9 11 attack on the pentagon to the space program.

Expedition 7 International Space Station Crew Set To Launch Aboard Soyuz
Expedition 7 International Space Station Crew Set To Launch. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko (Col., Russian Air Force) and veteran NASA astronaut Ed Lu have been named as the primary crew for the planned April 26, 2003, launch of a Russian Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft to the International Space Station.

The International Space Station
The mission of the International Space Station is to "enable long-term exploration of space & provide benefits to people on Earth." The International Space Station will create a permanent orbiting science institute in space, for long-duration research in the materials & life sciences areas in a nearly gravity-free environment. Medical research will also be conducted aboard the International Space Station. Just a few of the benefits which will be derived from the International Space Station.

Expedition 9 Takes Command - Soyuz Lands
Expedition 9 Takes Command - Soyuz Lands. As the International Space Station orbits the Earth with its new resident crew in command, its old crew -- Expedition 8 Commander and NASA ISS Science Officer Michael Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri -- are now on Earth.

Special Recipes Give Space Station Crew A Taste Of Home
Special Recipes Give Space Station Crew A Taste Of Home. There is a place where, no matter what you eat during the holidays, you'll never gain any weight. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for the fourth holiday season on the zero gravity research laboratory. Although the food is not mom's home cooking, today's selections are a huge advance over the "tubes and cubes" of the first meals in orbit more than 40 years ago.

Next International Space Station Crew Named
Next International Space Station Crew Named - NASA astronaut Michael Foale and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri