international space station to the iss on the soyuz spacecraft set off two russians sergey krikalev and yuri gedzenko and a nasa astronaut american william shefert the start was off the hook. moreover, from the same site from which gagarin flew into space, the crew assembled new components of the station, conducted the first scientific experiments and equipped the space for its future inhabitants, screamers, giddenkos and shepherds became the first team to celebrate the new year holidays on board the iss. they tried at the station for almost 137 days and returned to earth on the discovery shuttle, then the reusable shuttle program was still operating in march 2001 since then, long expeditions in earth orbit have become standard practice. that was the day in history. you are my father if i don't come for me. the heart of parma ukraine's nuclear provocation preparations are almost complete, than kiev is going to fill a dirty buba, where he thinks to blow it up. and what will happen then we will tell about it in the next 20 minutes. and here are some of the topics we’ll touch on back in dnepropetrovsk.