Discovery Brings 3 New Residents to Station
- Share via
The space shuttle Discovery arrived at the international space station, bringing three new residents to the 240-mile-high outpost.
It was dropping off astronaut Frank Culbertson and his Russian crew for a four-month stay and picking up cosmonaut Yuri Usachev and his U.S. crew following a five-month stay.
Culbertson will move into the space station with Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
Discovery last visited the space station in March, on the last crew-exchange mission. That’s when Usachev, Jim Voss and Susan Helms became the second resident crew.
Sign up for Essential California
The most important California stories and recommendations in your inbox every morning.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
