Crew docks at space station with astronaut who'll miss birth of 3rd child
With the arrival of four fresh space station crew members, four others will head for home after 235 days in orbit.
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Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harwood is a devoted amateur astronomer and co-author of "Comm Check: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia."
With the arrival of four fresh space station crew members, four others will head for home after 235 days in orbit.
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