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NASA astronaut Ron Garan spoke with collectSPACE editor Robert Pearlman one week after returning to Earth on Thursday, Sept. 22.
Garan completed 164 days in space as a member of the Expedition 27 and 28 crews aboard the International Space Station. The mission included the last space shuttle visit to the station.
Garan and his crewmates, Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev, both of the Russian Federal Space Agency, landed in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft in Kazakhstan Thursday, Sept. 15 at 11 p.m.
While aboard the station, they continued work on a variety of microgravity experiments and received provisions from two shuttle missions in order to ensure the orbiting outpost has enough supplies and spare parts until new commercial resupply spacecraft are ready to join a suite of international cargo delivery vehicles.
Garan is a graduate of the State University of New York College at Oneonta, and he received a master's degree in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. He flew on one shuttle mission, STS-124 in 2008.
Presented by collectSPACE.com -- The Source for Space History and Artifacts.
NASA astronaut Ron Garan spoke with collectSPACE editor Robert Pearlman one week after returning to Earth on Thursday, Sept. 22.
Garan completed 164 days in space as a member of the Expedition 27 and 28 crews aboard the International Space Station. The mission included the last space shuttle visit to the station.
Garan and his crewmates, Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev, both of the Russian Federal Space Agency, landed in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft in Kazakhstan Thursday, Sept. 15 at 11 p.m.
While aboard the station, they continued work on a variety of microgravity experiments and received provisions from two shuttle missions in order to ensure the orbiting outpost has enough supplies and spare parts until new commercial resupply spacecraft are ready to join a suite of international cargo delivery vehicles.
Garan is a graduate of the State University of New York College at Oneonta, and he received a master's degree in aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. He flew on one shuttle mission, STS-124 in 2008.
![[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 10 Recap](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oNvK-WJj3Q4/mqdefault.jpg "[STS-135 Flight Day Journal] Flight Day 10 Recap
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A video recap of flight day 10 of the STS-135 mission of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station.
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