commander
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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
Parmitano said he has known the mission's commander "for my entire career," but noted that for Douglas the mission will mark his first space flight.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Its crew of four - commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen - became the first humans to travel beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
But Ike was never the sort of man-on-horseback-style commander that Churchill idolized in the manner of the First Duke of Marlborough, Napoleon Bonaparte or the Duke of Wellington.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
On July 23, 1545, the French naval commander Claude d’Annebault decided to withdraw his fleet.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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