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Soyuz MS-04 was the first Soyuz to carry only two crew members since Soyuz TMA-2 in 2002 due to a Russian decision to temporarily cut back their number of station crew numbers from three to two. Because there would now be a spare seat on the return journey, Whitson’s mission was able to be extended by 3 months, and she returned to Earth together with Fyodor Yurichikhin and Jack Fischer.
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See the author’s book, In the Footsteps of Columbus, European Missions to the International Space Station.
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Ambassador Yovanovitch would later become embroiled in the “Ukraine scandal”. She was removed from her post by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and later testified before the House Intelligence Committee as part of the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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Gene Cernan was a Gemini 9A, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 astronaut who was the second-last person to walk on the Moon for the first time. (He left the Lunar Module before Harrison Schmitt), but he was the last person to walk on the moon. (He entered the Lunar Module after Schmitt.) He died on January 16, 2017, aged 82.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2020). Vita. In: European Missions to the International Space Station. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30326-6_9
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