Thus, when you have prepared your foundation and laid the floor, these can be trucked to the site and erected with a small crew of friends in a weekend.

The Germans allowed the freighter's crew and passengers to board lifeboats, and prepared to sink the freighter with the U-boat's deck gun.

Hungry and weakened from their long voyage, the crew quickly prepared to go ashore and restore provisions.

The crew then endured a winter for which the expedition was poorly prepared.

After the owner of the baggage in question was confirmed to be on board, the flight crew prepared for departure and the aircraft pushed back from gate 27 at the TWA Flight Center.

As aid from the Stuarts failed to materialize and Rogers ' arrival approached, Vane and his crew prepared to leave Nassau.

It was about 3: 00 p. m. when the Manola was secured and the crew prepared to drop anchor.

* In the first year, the ground is prepared usually by the combination of burning, herbicide spraying, and / or cultivation and then saplings are planted by human crew or by machine.

Due to the severe weather conditions forecast for Hong Kong, the flight crew had prepared to divert the flight to Taipei if the situation at Hong Kong was deemed unsuitable for landing.

Having been alerted by Kelt, both Norwegian ships prepared for combat: the guns were loaded and life preservers issued to the crew.

The staff and crew of The Price Is Right learned of Olson's condition as studio 33 at CBS Television City was being prepared for another day's taping.

On 10 March, the Soyuz 28 crew prepared for their return to Earth, packing experiments and testing systems.

On the sixth day ( 4 September 1983 ), experiment runs were completed and the crew prepared to deorbit.

During the 12-day mission, the crew successfully prepared the International Space Station for the arrival of the first permanent crew.

The Expedition 18 crew prepared to evacuate the ISS by closing hatches between modules, and boarding the Soyuz spacecraft that was docked to provide emergency crew escape.

This expansion of the ISS opened the door for future assembly missions and prepared the station for its first resident crew.

STS-106 Atlantis ( September 8 – 20, 2000 ) was a 12-day mission during which the crew successfully prepared the International Space Station for the arrival of the first permanent crew.

During the 12-day mission, the crew successfully prepared the ISS for the arrival of the first permanent crew.

STS-92 prepared the station for its first resident crew.

Sheridan asks if they had put Anna in a Shadow vessel, explaining how the station crew had recovered a ship full of people being prepared for that very use.

After determining that the problem was not a systems failure, but difficulty in reading the status lights, the crew and flight controllers prepared for another release attempt.

While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and fitted with a hood, then to the wheels station and be fitted with wheels.

* 1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.

Additionally, some HMMWVs have been fitted with a remotely operated CROWS weapon station, which slaves the machine gun to controls in the back seat so it can be fired without exposing the crew.

The crew of the Jupiter 2 in the 1998 film Lost in Space encounter and board a derelict space station named the Proteus.

In the station they meet Halrloprillalar Hotrufan (" Prill "), a former crew member of a spaceship used for trade between the Ringworld and other inhabited worlds.

" While on the station, Q gives hints to help the crew keep their station from being destroyed by an artifact that has been brought aboard it.

Three manned missions to the station, conducted between 1973 and 1974 using the Apollo Command / Service Module ( CSM ) atop the smaller Saturn IB, each delivered a three-astronaut crew.

DoD wanted its own manned facility, however, and in December it announced Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ), a small space station primarily intended for photo reconnaissance using large telescopes directed by a two-man crew.

The station was the same diameter as a Titan II upper stage, and would be launched with the crew riding atop in a modified Gemini capsule with a hatch cut into the heat shield on the bottom of the capsule.

The crew could use the CSM to quickly return to Earth if the station suffered serious damage.

The station underwent extensive repair during a spacewalk ( extra-vehicular activity, or EVA ) by the crew of the SL-2 mission, which launched on 25 May 1973 atop a Saturn IB.

If the crew had failed to repair Skylab in time, the plastic insulation inside the station would have melted, releasing poisonous gas and making Skylab completely uninhabitable.

By the end of 2009 the station was supporting 5 long-duration crew members.

** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.

* February 9 – The Soyuz 17 crew ( Georgi Grechko, Aleksei Gubarev ) returns to Earth after 1 month aboard the Salyut 4 space station.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, in its report, noted the reduced risk to the crew when a shuttle flies to the International Space Station ( ISS ), as the station can be used as a safe haven for the crew awaiting rescue in the event that damage to the shuttle orbiter on ascent makes it unsafe for re-entry.

A space station ( or orbital station ) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space ( most commonly in low Earth orbit ) for an extended period of time, and to which other spacecraft can dock.

All space stations have been designed with the intention of rotating multiple crews, with each crew member staying aboard the station for weeks or months, but rarely more than a year.

This allowed for a crew to man the station continually.

With the retirement of the USA's Space Shuttles, Russia will have the sole proven system for boosting crew to the station.