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NASA announced the selection of William (Bill) W. Parsons as the new manager for the Space Shuttle Program. Parsons, the director of the NASA John C. Stennis Space Center, Miss., succeeds Ronald D. Dittemore, who announced his resignation April 23.

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Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu are wrapping up their first week of independent operations aboard the International Space Station after departure of their Expedition 6 predecessors on May 3.

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Visitors can blast off on the summer vacation of a lifetime with International Space Station: The Earth Tour, a 5,000-square-foot, interactive exhibit appearing at McWane Center in Birmingham, Ala., from May 24 to Sept. 1.

"A cosmonaut pressing the wrong button could have caused a descent capsule carrying two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to land hundreds of kilometres (miles) from their original target area in Kazakhstan, Russian space officials said Monday."
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"Two US astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned safely to earth from the International Space Station on Sunday despite landing several hundred kilometres (miles) off their target in Kazakhstan after an apparent malfunction in their Russian Soyuz craft."

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Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin
and NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit are at the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center in Star City, Russia, where they are undergoing physical
rehabilitation.

The Expedition 6 crew touched down in northern Kazakhstan in its Soyuz spacecraft at 9:07 p.m. CDT Saturday, after an undocking from the International Space Station. The Soyuz landed well short of the predicted site and it took almost three hours for a search plane to find the capsule and report that all appeared well.

NASA Expedition 6 International Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit, KD5MDT, has suggested that NASA should consider setting up lunar bases in the future as a stepping stone to expand mankind's exploration of the universe. The comment came in response to a student's question during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school group contact. Several students at Cowichan Secondary School in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada, had the opportunity to quiz Pettit about life in space via Amateur Radio on April 21.

It is now time to go home. As much as I like being here, I realize that this is not home, and it is time to return. There are new frontiers to explore on Earth as a family. There are two little boys with wide-open eyes ready to explore the world, and it is time for me to be there and learn with them. It is always best to stop an endeavor while you are still in the midst of enjoyment; this will leave the best memories and instill a strong desire to do it all over again.