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in october 2007 peggy whitson became the

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first female commander of the

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international space station during her

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six-month command the iowa native

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oversaw the first expansion in more than

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six years of the station's living and

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working space over the course of our

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six-month mission we had

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two progresses depart two progresses

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arrive one atv which is the european uh

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automated transfer vehicle another

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resupply vehicle in essence arrive

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and then three shuttles arrived and

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departed

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and then a soyuz

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uh one soyuz departed when we after we

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arrived and another one arrived just

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before we left

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so we had a pretty busy traffic flow

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during expedition 16. it was uh it was

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great kept us hopping i liked it that

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way armed with a doctorate in

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biochemistry whitson came to nasa as a

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research biochemist in 1989 and moved on

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to become the project scientist of the

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shuttle mir program in 1995.

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she began her astronaut training in 1996

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and took her first flight on sts-111 to

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the iss to become an expedition 5 crew

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member

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whitson's second tour of duty on

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expedition 16 catapulted her into the

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history books besides becoming the first

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woman commander of the iss she also set

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records in these categories

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most days in space for a u.s astronaut

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377

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20th among all space veterans and more