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The trio of flight Expedition 24 flight engineers who blasted off on Tuesday from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome were yesterday welcomed aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft bearing NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin docked with the orbiting …

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  1. TeeCee Gold badge
    Joke

    Is there a League of Astronauts?

    "the first native Houstonian to be named an astronaut".

    This is a local multibillion dollar space agency for local people.

  2. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    Coat

    Warm welcome ?

    Why ? Didn't they let the pee - um, water - cool down first before passing the drinks around ?

    Sorry, couldn't resist.

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