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When Ken Bowersox boarded the International Space Station as its sixth incumbent skipper on 25 November 2002, he had — in a way — already flown two ‘miniature space station’ missions in his 15-year astronaut career. Nicknamed’ sox’ throughout the astronaut corps, he flew four highly successful Shuttle missions during the early-to-mid 1990s, two as Pilot and two as Commander, before joining the space station project as backup skipper for its first long-duration crew. Now, teamed with fellow astronaut Don Pettit and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, he was about to spend what he thought would be a routine four months in space.
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(2005). Extended capabilities. In: Space Shuttle Columbia. Springer Praxis Books in Space Exploration. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73972-4_4
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