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International Space Station marks 20 anniversary – 9News

Twenty years ago three men began a journey that would take them 500km above Earth and herald the start of c…

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US astronaut Bill Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko blasted off from Kazakhstan on October 31, 2000, headed for the International Space Station (ISS). Two days later their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft docked at the ISS. Since that day the station has been continuously occupied by a regular rotation of crews.

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