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Although I will miss this place and this crew, I also am very happy to return home to my family ... It is time for Expedition 30 to step aside and make way for Expedition 31.
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Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Midterm Assessment of NASA's Implementation of the Decadal Survey.
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