The "army" in space.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration astranauts COL William McArthur Jr. (Ret.) and COL Jeffrey Williams expedit space)

From: Soldiers Magazine | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Hasenauer, Heike | Copyright information

THE Army in space" was never a more apt phrase than in March, when NASA astronauts COL William McArthur Jr. (Ret.) and COL Jeffrey Williams, members of International Space Station expeditions 12 and 13, respectively, inhabited the station--albeit for about a week at the same time.

When Williams blasted into space March 29 aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, McArthur had been on the ISS since October 2005.

The replacement crew reached the ...

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