At each end of the cable is a landing station, around the size of a large house, often tucked away inconspicuously in a quiet seaside neighborhood.

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The station is equipped with landing strips built on sea ice and shelf ice, as well as a helicopter pad.

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These, in turn, connect to 132KV export cables carrying the electricity to a beach landing point at Pensarn for onward transmission to the new electricity sub station at St Asaph.

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The landing marked the end of the first private flight ever to the International Space Station.

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Then on Monday, crew members Hadfield, Marshburn and Roman Romanenko will undock their Russian Soyuz from the station and head back to Earth for a planned 10:31pm EDT landing in Kazakhstan.

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