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    Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk, OC OBC (born August 17, 1953) is a Canadian retired engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He...
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    Thirsk was granted to a Robert from Montbray for whose descendant House of Mowbray and the vale of Mowbray is named. By 1145, what is now Old Thirsk,...
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    Robert Duane Ballard (born June 30, 1942) is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is...
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    (Columbia – Spacelab) Mission Specialist, STS-122 (Atlantis – to ISS) Robert Thirsk, Canada (2 flights) Payload Specialist, STS-78 (Columbia; Spacelab)...
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  • Shuttles and on Russian Soyuz rockets in 15 missions. In May 2009, Robert Thirsk flew to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay,...
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    specialist on STS-122 Umberto Guidoni – mission specialist on STS-100 Robert Thirsk – flight engineer on Soyuz TMA-15 and Expedition 20 Bjarni Tryggvason...
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    Thirsk and Malton is a constituency in North Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Hollinrake, a Conservative...
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    Sténuit Hervé Stevenin Nicole Stott James Talacek Daniel M. Tani Robert Thirsk Bill Todd Mark T. Vande Hei Koichi Wakata Rex J. Walheim Shannon Walker...
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  • Research Council, led to the selection of Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Robert Thirsk, Ken Money, Bjarni Tryggvason and Steve MacLean. The second, in 1992...
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    Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), known as "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality...
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