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Station Crew Back to Business

The space station’s newest member, Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson, is busy at work with his Expedition 15 crewmates Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov. Anderson replaced Suni Williams who returned home Friday, June 22, aboard space shuttle Atlantis after a 195-day stay in space.

Williams stayed in space longer than any woman before her. She and her shuttle crewmates returned to Houston the day after Atlantis landed at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

Meanwhile, science and maintenance continue aboard the International Space Station. Anderson has been taking blood and urine samples to study nutritional countermeasures to the effects of microgravity. Yurchikhin and Kotov have been working on a communications system in the Zvezda service module and reconfiguring a toilet in the docked Soyuz vehicle among other tasks.

+ Read more about Expedition 15 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.html + View crew daily timelines http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html