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“Expanding the ISS is the key to space”

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Published: 18 August, 2009, 09:43

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, NASA's STS-60 mission payload specialist, at Johnson Space Ctr. / LIFE Archive

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Keeping the ISS is now an international team effort, with no rivalry involved, believes veteran Russian cosmonaut Sergey Krikalev who has been in space six times and spent there more time there than anyone else.

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