Today marks the 12th anniversary of “continuous presence in space” aboard NASA‘s International Space Station. The first component of the ISS was launched into space in 1998, but it wasn’t until two years later when the first humans officially set foot into the Space Station — cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev, and NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd.
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November 2, 2012


