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The crew of the ISS has become the heroes of Star Trek.. / June 29, 2009 /

The U.S. space agency on the web poster new ISS crew, in which astronauts were heroes in the film Star Trek. This informs the site NASA Watch. Most recently, in orbit, a special premiere of new film from the famous series.

On the poster, six members of the 21 th expedition to the ISS Frank De Winne, Robert Tire, Roman Romanenko, Maxim Sura, Jeffrey Williams and Nicole Scott, dressed in traditional costumes known universe. Fans have already noted that the form on the crew is taken from the new film, and not from the classic series. In this form there are no distinctions, so the ranks of the crew on the version of Star Trek universe is not defined.

This is not the first experience of NASA unusual items for their posters. For example, one of the expeditions of the Shuttle American space agency has made a poster in the style of comics. For the 16 th expedition to the International Space Station as a theme was chosen as the movie «The Matrix».

Officially, 21 th expedition to the ISS will begin in October 2009 after removing the ship «Soyuz», which will bring to Earth some of the members of the previous crew. Captain expedition will be the European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne.

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