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On 2 November 2005, the International Space Station Programme celebrated five continuous years of human presence aboard the station. Aboard were two men — American Commander and NASA Science Officer William McArthur and Russian Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valeri Tokarev. The two make up the twelvth main expedition crew to man the complex.
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Kidger, N. (2007). Building the International Space Station. In: Space Exploration 2007. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48758-8_2
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