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His stay on Mir, considered the smoothest of the entire Phase One program, featured weekly " Letters from the Outpost " from Thomas and passed two milestones for length of spaceflight — 815 consecutive days of Mir occupancy by American astronauts dating back to Norman Thagard's trip to Mir in March 1995.
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stay and on
He'd be an idiot to let them stay he thought, but he couldn't send them on, either.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
`` Holy Mary, Mother of God, Star of the Sea, stay Thou with me on this next dive.
He had considered throwing erasers or flipping paperwads at someone or pulling the hair of the girl sitting in front of him, but he couldn't take a chance on either of these possibilities: the teacher probably would make him stand face-to-wall in a corner instead of stay in after school.
The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.
Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.
Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.
Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.
Thus, there is an added incentive to stay on the job.
In our age of Science and Angst it seems to me more brave to stay on Earth and explore inner man than to fly far from the sphere of our sorrow and explore outer space ''.
Each Friday one manager is chosen by lot to stay late and load the equipment on a truck.
) Wishing to show that aviation was dependable and here to stay, Bob Fogg always made a point of taking off each morning on the dot of seven, disregarding rain, snow and sleet in true postal tradition.
whether to stay financially dependent on her parents or help support herself while attending school ; ;
Active alumnae have built a fine building on the campus where members can come and stay for a few days or longer and where they can have their social gatherings and professional meetings.
Shirl Winter said, `` I'll stay on the phone, Mr. Paxton.
Phil decided to stay a little longer, and as time passed it seemed as if the strange little man had never been there, but for the other glass on the table.
He said his plan is designed to `` meet the needs of those millions who have no wish to receive care at the taxpayers' expense, but who are nevertheless staggered by the drain on their savings -- or those of their children -- caused by an extended hospital stay ''.
However, Mr. Parichy and his bride will go to Vero Beach on their wedding trip, and will stay in the John G. Beadles' beach house.
President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..
And he can be on the way to Memphis, your Gratt Shafer can, and you discover you can stay alive and hate him and love him and want him even if it means you want him -- really want him -- dead.
Heavier particles settle out first, so gravel will be on the bottom, sand above, silt above that and very fine clay and organic matter will stay in suspension for days.
This means that during the summer season, the younger members of the family, teenage boys and girls, would take the cattle to graze on the hillside and they would stay in the houses of the Deserted Village.
Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.
The discs were designed by Gaudí and Jujol between tests during their stay in Majorca, while working on the restoration of the Cathedral of Palma.
# If adiabats and isotherms are graphed severally at regular changes of entropy and temperature, respectively ( like altitude on a contour map ), then as the eye moves towards the axes ( towards the south-west ), it sees the density of isotherms stay constant, but it sees the density of adiabats grow.
stay and Mir
* 1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
During her stay, T ' Mir provided a patent office with a revolutionary method of adhering things -- Velcro, in order to raise college tuition money for a human teenager she had befriended.
Atlantis docked with the Mir space station on 27 September 1997, which marked the start of Dave Wolf's stay on Mir.
STS-89 docked with Mir on 24 January 1998, marking the end of Wolf's stay on Mir.
During his nine days stay on the Mir space station, Momand took photographs of his country, participated in astrophysical, medical and biological experiments.
The crew transferred over 3. 5 tons of supplies to and from the Mir and exchanged U. S. astronauts on Mir for the first time-leaving John Blaha and bringing Shannon Lucid home after her record six months stay aboard Mir.
She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station.
Lucid exercises on a treadmill during her stay aboard Mir.
Her stay on Mir was not expected to last so long but her return was delayed twice, extending her stay by about six weeks.
Assigned as a board engineer 2, she performed numerous life science and physical science experiments during the course of her stay aboard Mir.
Her approximately four-and-a-half month stay also eclipsed long-duration U. S. spaceflight record set by first American to live on Mir, Norm Thagard.
Lucid was succeeded by astronaut John Blaha during STS-79 in August, giving her distinction of membership in four different flight crews — two U. S. and two Russian — and her stay on Mir kicked off continuous U. S. presence in space for the next two years.
Succeeding her on Mir for an approximately four-month stay was John Blaha, who returned in January 1997 with the STS-81 crew.
During her approximately six-month stay on Mir, Lucid conducted research in the following fields: advanced technology, Earth sciences, fundamental biology, human life sciences, microgravity research and space sciences.
Some of this research was conducted in the newest and final Mir module, Priroda, which arrived at station during Lucid ’ s stay.
First Shuttle flight of 1997 highlighted by return of U. S. astronaut John Blaha to Earth after 118-day stay aboard Russian Space Station Mir and the largest transfer to date of logistics between the two spacecraft.
Ewald returned to Earth with the Mir 22 cosmonauts after a brief stay on the station.
Another milestone reached during his stay was one-year anniversary of continuous U. S. presence in space that began with Lucid's arrival at Mir 22 March 1996.
This was Lu's first space walk, while Malenchenko had conducted a pair of space walks totaling 12 hours during his four-month stay aboard Mir in 1994.
He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and a stay on the Mir space station.
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