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Credit: ISS: NASA
HOUSTON – Staffing of the International Space Station temporarily dropped from six to three people on Dec. 11, as NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko descended to Earth for a wintry homecoming aboard their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft, ending a mission...
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