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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, three members of the STS-88 space shuttle crew speak to spaceport employees during a celebration commemorating the 15th anniversary of the start of assembly of the International Space Station. On stage, from the left, are mission specialist Nancy Currie and Jerry Ross, along with and mission commander Bob Cabana, who is Kennedy's director. The Russian Space Agency's Functional Cargo Block, named "Zarya," was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 20, 1998. Two weeks later, on Dec. 4, 1998, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy on STS-88 with node 1, called "Unity." In addition to Cabana, Curie and Ross, the crew also included pilot Rick Sturckow, along with mission specialists Jim Newman and Sergei Krikalev, a Russian cosmonaut. For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman