First Station crew facing four-month test flight, with lots of unpacking

The first full-time crew to board the International Space Station will face four months of unpacking, activating and outfitting in a mission Station managers in the U.S. and Russia see as a test flight for what they hope will become a permanent human presence off the planet. When they board the...

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