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During STS-106, Sept. 11, 2000, Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko, mission specialist, was captured on film by his spacewalking colleague, Edward T. Lu, during the 6-hour-plus spacewalk www..gov the two performed on the exterior of the International . 1 The International Space Station in 2001.

Space Shuttle Atlantis carries the S1 Integrated Truss Structure and the Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) Cart A to the ISS on mission STS-102 in October 2002.

The Expedition Six crewmembers pose for a crew photo in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are Donald R. Pettit, NASA ISS science officer; Kenneth D. Bowersox, mission commander; and cosmonaut Nikolai M. Budarin, flight engineer representing Rosaviakosmos.

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Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, Expedition Six mission commander, works with an experiment cartridge for the Zeolite Crystal Growth (ZCG) experiment in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space station, Dec. 17, 2002.

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Backdropped by the blackness of space, this full view of the International Space Station was photographed by a crew member on board the following the undocking of the two spacecraft. Endeavour pulled away from the complex Dec. 2, 2002, as the two spacecraft flew over northwestern Australia. The newly installed Port One (P1) truss now complements the Starboard One (S1) truss in center frame.

10 Oct. 12, 2002, astronauts David A. Wolf (left) and Piers J. Sellers, both STS-112 mission specialists, participate in the mission’s second session of (EVA). Wolf is anchored to a foot restraint on the International Space Station’s (ISS) Canadarm2 while Sellers traverses along the airlock spur, a route used by spacewalkers to get from the Quest airlock on the station to the outpost's truss. 11 *OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION

For more about the food system for space travelers, read the JSC fact sheet “Space Food” on the web at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/

For more about sleeping in space, go to http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/kids/L&W/ sleep.htm .

For others, go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html

More fact sheets on the Web can be found at http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/ kscpao/educate/docs.htm

NASA: Explore. Discover. Understand.

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