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It is a very special chapter for me as my time in this wonderful place is coming to an end.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_12.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="“The Hard Thump of Reality…!”" TITLE="“The Hard Thump of Reality…!”" SRC="/images/content/196850main_Clay_journal12_iss015e19626_tn.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_12.html">Chapter 12: “The Hard Thump of Reality…!”</a></h3> <p>When I was about 8 years old, my parents woke my brother and sister and me up in the middle of the night, on Christmas Eve of 1968.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_11.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="“There’s a New Sheriff in Town…!”" TITLE="“There’s a New Sheriff in Town…!”" SRC="/images/content/195947main_iss015e25439_journal11_thum.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_11.html">Chapter 11: “There’s a New Sheriff in Town…!”</a></h3> <p>I am going to miss them. Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer 1 Oleg Kotov departed the International Space Station (ISS) today for Earth.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_10.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="“In the Blink of an Eye…!”" TITLE="“In the Blink of an Eye…!”" SRC="/images/content/192465main_iss015e17654_thumb.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_10.html">Chapter 10: “In the Blink of an Eye…!”</a></h3> <p>Wow! It’s almost time for me to go home. Where did the time go?</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_09.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="Let’s Take Her Out for a Spin, Shall We?!" TITLE="Let’s Take Her Out for a Spin, Shall We?!" SRC="/images/content/192437main_iss015e31331_thumb.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_09.html">Chapter 9: “Let’s Take Her Out for a Spin, Shall We?!”</a></h3> <p>How many different types of vehicles have you ridden in during your lifetime?</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_08.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="So Now What Do We Do?!" TITLE="So Now What Do We Do?!" SRC="/images/content/191014main_iss015e29049_thum.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_08.html">Chapter 8: “So Now What Do We Do?!”</a></h3> <p>No more spacewalks; no more robotic arm operations. So what do we do now? Well, that’s an easy question to answer.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_07.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG VSPACE="0" WIDTH="64" ALT="Houston, ISS on Space to Ground 2…for Teamwork and 100 Days" TITLE="Houston, ISS on Space to Ground 2…for Teamwork and 100 Days" HSPACE="0" SRC="/images/content/189635main_jsc2007e029830_thum.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_07.html">Chapter 7: “Houston, ISS on Space to Ground 2…for Teamwork and 100 Days.”</a></h3> <p>I am indeed a very lucky man. Not because I am in space, living onboard the International Space Station (ISS), whizzing around our beautiful planet at 17,500 miles an hour and enjoying the views of a lifetime.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_06.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="Expedition 15 and STS-118 crews" TITLE="Expedition 15 and STS-118 crews" SRC="/images/content/188772main_iss015e23031_tn.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_06.html">Chapter 6: "Must You Go…Can’t You Stay Just a Little Bit Longer???"</a></h3> <p>I miss them already… the crew of STS-118 and the beautiful ship Endeavour.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_05.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG VSPACE="0" WIDTH="64" ALT="iss015e21701 -- Space Shuttle Endeavour" TITLE="iss015e21701 -- Space Shuttle Endeavour" HSPACE="0" SRC="/images/content/187474main_iss015e21701_thum.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_05.html">Chapter 5: “Visitors…From Another Planet!!!”</a></h3> <p>I don’t think that I ever could have imagined that I would have been living off of the Planet Earth for almost 2 months!</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_04.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="ISS015-E-17020 --- Mount Rainier in Washington" TITLE="ISS015-E-17020 --- Mount Rainier in Washington" SRC="/images/content/182974main_ISS015E17020_tn.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_04.html">Chapter 4: "Please Put Your Boots on Before You Go Outside…!"</a></h3> <p>As a youngster, I recall those winter days back in Nebraska when we wanted to go outside and play in the snow.</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_03.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="ISS015-E-17052 --- The Great Salt Lake in Utah" TITLE="ISS015-E-17052 --- The Great Salt Lake in Utah" SRC="/images/content/182949main_ISS015E17052_tn.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_03.html">Chapter 3: “I’ll Take World Geography for $2000, Alex…!”</a></h3> <p>My mission elapsed time (MET) is now 31 days and climbing! Can you believe it? I have now been living "off the planet" for over one month!</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_02.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="Richat Structure" TITLE="Richat Structure" SRC="/images/content/182329main_ca2_thum.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_02.html">Chapter 2: “So What is it Like…Really???”</a></h3> <p>One of my ground-based journal chapters speculated on what life in space might really be like. At that time, I honestly had no idea, but I promised my dedicated readers that I would find out…and soon!</p>  </li>    <li xmlns:java_code="xalan://gov.nasa.build.Utils2"> <a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_01.html" class="small_legacy_wrap"> <div class="topPad13"><IMG WIDTH="64" ALT="Space shuttle Atlantis" TITLE="Space shuttle Atlantis" SRC="/images/content/180936main_sts117-s-034_tn.jpg" HEIGHT="48" ALIGN="Bottom" BORDER="0" /></div> </a> <h3><a href="/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/journal_anderson_01.html">Chapter 1: "…And Then There Were Three!"</a></h3> <p>Wow! I can’t believe it…here I am, safely on orbit, living onboard the International Space Station. 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