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NASA mission STS-126

In this Novemner 21, 2008 NASA image members of the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavour crews posed for a group portrait following a video press conference. Astronaut Donald Pettit appears at photo center. Just below Pettit is astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshin-Piper. Clockwise from her position are astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Steve Bowen, Eric Boe, Chris Ferguson and Michael Fincke, along with cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, and astronauts Sandra Magnus and Gregory Chamitoff. (UPI Photo/NASA)

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