Nov 18 2005

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ISS Expedition 12 crew members William S. McArthur Jr. and Valery I. Tokarev left the ISS temporarily unoccupied so that they could relocate the orbiting station's Soyuz spacecraft from the Pirs module's docking compartment to the Zarya module's docking port. The Soyuz spacecraft had remained docked at the ISS to serve as a return vehicle to Earth and an emergency escape vehicle. McArthur and Tokarev were relocating the Soyuz so that Pirs could serve as an airlock for future spacewalks. (NASA, “International Space Station Status Report: SS05-054,” status report SS05-054, 18 November 2005.)

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