There were "tense moments" for passengers when the commander of a domestic flight got locked out of the cockpit during a toilet break.

BBC: Indian media: Police violence

The three crew members will join Commander Suni Williams and Flight Engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko until November 12, when the current crew will depart in the Soyuz.

FORBES: Soyuz Launches With New Crew For Space Station

Space shuttle Discovery docked with the orbiting outpost Sunday afternoon, bringing up the new crew: U.S. commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.

CNN: newcrew

Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.

CNN: Spacewalkers hang experiments on Alpha

Rounding out the crew is two-flight veteran astronaut Ellen Ochoa (robotic arm operator and flight engineer), rookie pilot Rick Husband and the commander, Kent Rominger, flying his fourth mission and his first in the left seat.

CNN: liftoff

They can look to Jennifer Grieves, who made history by becoming the first woman Marine One aircraft commander, and by commanding the first-ever flight with an all-female crew -- I remember this -- proudly carrying my husband from the White House to Andrews Air Force Base back in July.

WHITEHOUSE: The First Lady Celebrates Women in the Military

Commander Collins admitted the shuttle, which made its maiden flight in 1981, was showing signs of its age.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle crew reflect on crucial flight

One warrant for these attacks was issued in 1999 for Imad Mugniyah, a Hezbollah military commander also responsible for the 1983 US Embassy bombings and the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847.

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