Space station crew mark big space anniversaries (AP)
The sextet astronauts aboard the International Space Station module take conception in Tuesday's occasion of digit field expanse anniversaries.
Tuesday marks the 50th day of man's prototypal travelling into space, and the 30th day of the prototypal expanse shuttle launch.
Russian Commander Dmitry Kondratyev said weekday that Yuri Gagarin's expanse flight on Apr 12, 1961, has culminated in the huge expanse station. He says he's hoping for another colossus move in the next half-century.
As for the shuttle anniversary, traveler Ronald Garan Jr. said Columbia's start on Apr 12, 1981, inspired him to become a spaceman.
On Tuesday, NASA module foretell which museums module get the soon-to-be retired shuttles for display. The astronauts say they're impartial, as to where the shuttles twine up.
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