At a crowded press conference in Russia late last month, the stars of the show—cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, along with astronaut William Shepherd—sat behind a glass enclosure. The trio, then under quarantine in preparation for their Nov. 2 flight to the International Space Station (ISS), became the first crew to inhabit the Tinkertoylike structure still under assembly in orbit around Earth.
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