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Old December 9th 03, 07:13 PM
Ron Baalke
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Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington December 9, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 03-400

NASA ASTRONAUT BREAKS U.S. SPACE ENDURANCE RECORD

NASA astronaut Michael Foale, International Space Station
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer, is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder, and he's not finished yet.

Just before 2 p.m. EST Monday, Foale surpassed the previous
U.S. record of 230 days, 13 hours, three minutes and 37
seconds. NASA astronaut Carl Walz set the old record in June
2002. By the time Foale returns to Earth next April, he will
have accrued 375 cumulative days in space. Walz made an ultra-
long-distance phone call from NASA Headquarters in Washington
Monday to congratulate Foale on his accomplishment. Walz is
still co-holder of the U.S. record for the longest single U.S.
spaceflight during Expedition 4. He and NASA astronaut Daniel
Bursch spent nearly 196 days aboard the Space Station.

Foale has been a member of six Space Shuttle crews and two
Space Station crews. He flew aboard Shuttle missions in 1992,
1993, 1995 and 1999. He flew as a flight engineer aboard the
Russian Mir Space Station in 1997, traveling to and from the
station aboard the Shuttle. For Expedition 8, Foale traveled
to the Station on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Foale's Expedition 8 crewmate, Russian cosmonaut and Flight
Engineer Alexander Kaleri, is also among the most experienced
space travelers. By the end of their mission, Kaleri will have
logged 610 days in orbit on four flights, placing him fifth on
the all-time space endurance list. Another Russian cosmonaut,
Sergei Avdeyev, holds the all-time record for time spent in
space, with 748 days accumulated on three flights. Cosmonaut
Valery Polyakov set the world single-flight endurance record
in 1995, when he completed a 438-day mission.

American Shannon Lucid holds the single flight and cumulative
record for time in space by a woman. She had a 188-day flight
aboard the Russian Mir Space Station contributing to a
cumulative total of 223 days in space on five flights.

Walz's call to Foale, along with b-roll, will be replayed at
noon EST today during the NASA Television Video File. NASA TV
is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85
degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz.
Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz.
For information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Foale's biography is available on the Internet, at:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/foale.html

For information about NASA and the International Space Station
on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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Old December 10th 03, 03:34 AM
Jorge R. Frank
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"Alan Erskine" wrote in
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"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...
NASA astronaut Michael Foale, International Space Station
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer, is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder, and he's not finished yet.


I thought he was a British citizen?


Foale has dual citizenship.


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Old December 10th 03, 12:12 PM
Harald Kucharek
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Is this some "officially" (FAI?) acknowledged record?
Isn't there often some rule that the old record has to be
surpassed by some percentage of the old one (5%? 10%?)
to be recognized?

Harald
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Old December 10th 03, 03:05 PM
Andrew Gray
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In article , Jorge R. Frank wrote:
"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...
NASA astronaut Michael Foale, International Space Station
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer, is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder, and he's not finished yet.


I thought he was a British citizen?


Foale has dual citizenship.


As the BBC continually tries to remind us :-)

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Old December 10th 03, 03:09 PM
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By end-of-mission he will have accumulated a full year of space experience,
the first NASA astronaut to do so, and by my count, the 20th human being to
do so.


"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...

Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington December 9, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 03-400

NASA ASTRONAUT BREAKS U.S. SPACE ENDURANCE RECORD

NASA astronaut Michael Foale, International Space Station
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Science Officer, is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder, and he's not finished yet.

Just before 2 p.m. EST Monday, Foale surpassed the previous
U.S. record of 230 days, 13 hours, three minutes and 37
seconds. NASA astronaut Carl Walz set the old record in June
2002. By the time Foale returns to Earth next April, he will
have accrued 375 cumulative days in space. Walz made an ultra-
long-distance phone call from NASA Headquarters in Washington
Monday to congratulate Foale on his accomplishment. Walz is
still co-holder of the U.S. record for the longest single U.S.
spaceflight during Expedition 4. He and NASA astronaut Daniel
Bursch spent nearly 196 days aboard the Space Station.

Foale has been a member of six Space Shuttle crews and two
Space Station crews. He flew aboard Shuttle missions in 1992,
1993, 1995 and 1999. He flew as a flight engineer aboard the
Russian Mir Space Station in 1997, traveling to and from the
station aboard the Shuttle. For Expedition 8, Foale traveled
to the Station on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Foale's Expedition 8 crewmate, Russian cosmonaut and Flight
Engineer Alexander Kaleri, is also among the most experienced
space travelers. By the end of their mission, Kaleri will have
logged 610 days in orbit on four flights, placing him fifth on
the all-time space endurance list. Another Russian cosmonaut,
Sergei Avdeyev, holds the all-time record for time spent in
space, with 748 days accumulated on three flights. Cosmonaut
Valery Polyakov set the world single-flight endurance record
in 1995, when he completed a 438-day mission.

American Shannon Lucid holds the single flight and cumulative
record for time in space by a woman. She had a 188-day flight
aboard the Russian Mir Space Station contributing to a
cumulative total of 223 days in space on five flights.

Walz's call to Foale, along with b-roll, will be replayed at
noon EST today during the NASA Television Video File. NASA TV
is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85
degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz.
Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz.
For information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Foale's biography is available on the Internet, at:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/foale.html

For information about NASA and the International Space Station
on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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Old December 10th 03, 04:10 PM
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"JimO" writes:

By end-of-mission he will have accumulated a full year of space experience,
the first NASA astronaut to do so, and by my count, the 20th human being to
do so.


Odd how the NASA press release doesn't mention this fact. I suppose
it wouldn't appear to be much of a "first" if they included this
information. Still, they did mention that he broke the US record, so
they're just heavily spinning the news, not fabricating it.

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Old December 10th 03, 06:20 PM
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In article ,
says...
I thought he was a British citizen?

Foale has dual citizenship.

As the BBC continually tries to remind us :-)


When they mention anything about space at all, that is. :-(

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Old December 10th 03, 06:36 PM
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:34:27 +0000, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...
NASA astronaut Michael Foale

....
is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder


I thought he was a British citizen?


Foale has dual citizenship.


OH GOD, don't start that argument again!!!!

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Old December 11th 03, 02:39 AM
Jorge R. Frank
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Rick DeNatale wrote in
news
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:34:27 +0000, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...
NASA astronaut Michael Foale

...
is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder

I thought he was a British citizen?


Foale has dual citizenship.


OH GOD, don't start that argument again!!!!


Heh. I'd forgotten that thread, and I'll bet most of the regulars would
have as well if you hadn't brought it up. But what the hey? We've rehashed
the rail gauge argument, the Nazi slave labor argument, the Civil War
argument, the Indian Genocide argument, and lord knows how many others
recently... why *not* this one? Shoot, let's bring back "Moon Hoax", "Lost
Cosmonauts", "Mr. Gorsky", and "Alternate-timeline Apollo Crew Rotations"
while we're at it... vbg


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Old December 11th 03, 03:18 AM
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message
...
Rick DeNatale wrote in
news
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:34:27 +0000, Jorge R. Frank wrote:

"Alan Erskine" wrote in
:

"Ron Baalke" wrote in message
...
NASA astronaut Michael Foale

...
is the new
U.S. space endurance record holder

I thought he was a British citizen?

Foale has dual citizenship.


OH GOD, don't start that argument again!!!!


Heh. I'd forgotten that thread, and I'll bet most of the regulars would
have as well if you hadn't brought it up. But what the hey? We've rehashed
the rail gauge argument,


Well, see, the Brits started with what we here in the States now call
"Standard Gauge."

the Nazi slave labor argument,


The Nazis used trains...
the Civil War
argument,


The South tried to.

the Indian Genocide argument, and lord knows how many others
recently... why *not* this one? Shoot, let's bring back "Moon Hoax", "Lost
Cosmonauts", "Mr. Gorsky", and "Alternate-timeline Apollo Crew Rotations"
while we're at it... vbg


And now I need to cue Pat Flannery.



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