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Mission which saw the Expedition Four crew -- Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch -- to the orbital outpost. The Expedition Three crew -- Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin -- returned to Earth on Endeavour.
The STS-108 crew comprised of Commander: Dominic L. Gorie, Pilot: Mark Kelly
Mission Spacialist: Linda M. Godwin, Mission Spcialist: Daniel M. Tani, Expidition 4 RSA: Yuri I. Onufrienko, Expedition 4: Carl E. Walz, Expedition 4 Daniel W. Bursch (4), Expedition 3 Commander: Frank L. Culbertson, Expedition 3 RSA: Mikhail Turin and Expeidition 3 RSA Vladimir N. Dezhurov.
While at the station, the crew conducted one space walk and attached the Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module to the station so that about 2.7 metric tons (3 tons) of equipment and supplies could be unloaded. The crew later returned Raffaello to Endeavour's payload bay for the trip home.
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