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Dec 15, 2015 figuring out the optimal layout for the astronauts to live, exercise, eat and work requires taking a very close look at how astronauts already do those things on the international space station. Booksource is the premier trade book distributor to k12 school classrooms across the country. Disney junior made history in april by premiering a new episode of mission force one aboard the international space station. It tells the story of thirteen women and their quest to go into space in the 1950s. The space station situation also features voices of real astronauts and nasa employees as miles and his crew visit the presentday iss.
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