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He first flew aboard space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station in 2009.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
He later traveled to the station aboard Soyuz MS-05, serving as a flight engineer for Expedition 52 and commander of Expedition 53.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
A small plane from local carrier Golden Bay Air tipped onto its side in the wind while parked at the airport with no-one aboard.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
It didn’t say how many crew were aboard the helicopter at the time it crashed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Like the Deanes so many years before him, he was particularly familiar with the 1782 capsizing of the Royal George, which had gone down in the Solent with more than eight hundred souls aboard her.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing aboard
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" and "The Flag We Love"
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