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The Continuation of Human Spaceflight
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With the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew on the 01 February 2003, the future of manned spaceflight looked a little uncertain. The question on everyone's lips was ""what happens now?"" and NASA's understandable first decision was to ground the Shuttle fleet while investigations took place.
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During this time humans were already in space on board the International Space Station. At any one time the Space Station has a permanent crew of 3, which are changed over every 4 months. As events unfolded, the Expedition 6 crew comprising of Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, waited to hear what the future would bring.
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Originally the Expedition 6 crew were scheduled to return home I March on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS