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>> Expedition 38 will return
astronaut Rick Mastracchio

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to the International Space
Station for the fourth time.

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His first three journeys were
aboard space shuttles Atlantis,

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Endeavor and Discovery.

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Rick has completed
six space walks

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in his nearly forty
days in space.

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Rick is a native of
Waterbury Connecticut

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and a father of three.

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He enjoys wood working.

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Soyuz Commander Mikhail
Tyurin has spent three hundred

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and forty days in
space over the course

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of his two long duration
missions.

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He has five space
walks to his credit.

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In his spare time
Mikhail enjoys sailing.

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He resides in Korolev, home

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of the Russian Federal Space
Agency Mission Control Center

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and has one daughter.

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Japan aerospace exploration
agency astronaut Dr. Koichi

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Wakata has journeyed
to space three times.

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He was Japan's first
long duration astronaut

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and will become Japan's first
space station commander during

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Expedition 39.

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Koichi is a father of one and
enjoys hang gliding, baseball,

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tennis and snow skiing.

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Rick, Mikhail and Koichi will
launch to the space station

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in their Soyuz spacecraft
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome