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The astronauts have been aboarding it since 1998.
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on expedition 25 (our current one) there are six astronauts on board the ISS.
The shuttles have the capacity to carry 8 astronauts, but usually only 7 are on each mission. Sometimes the extra seat will be taken by the astronaut being returned to earth from the International Space Station.
The astronauts have been aboarding it since 1998.
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on expedition 25 (our current one) there are six astronauts on board the ISS.
The shuttles have the capacity to carry 8 astronauts, but usually only 7 are on each mission. Sometimes the extra seat will be taken by the astronaut being returned to earth from the International Space Station.
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Astronauts currently work in six month shifts on the international space station. A single astronaut might fly only once in his career. Others, however, have flown as many as five or six times! (Astronaut training is expensive.)
Many astronauts, cosmonauts, and specialists have lived and worked quitesuccessfully for months at a time on the International Space Station, invirtually zero gravity.
There has been approximately 358 people to visit the International Space Station. Some of the visitors have been to the space station numerous times.
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