Crew
hideA crew comprises a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. A location in which a crew works is called a crewyard or a workyard. The word has particular nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company. Members of a crew are often referred to by the title "Crewman".
"Crew" is also used colloquially to refer to a small, tight-knit group of friends or associates engaged in criminal activity. Also used in reference to the traditional "unit" of criminals under the supervision of a caporegime in the American Mafia. However, the term is not specific to (Mafia-affiliated) organized crime.
Crew can also refer simply to a group of friends, unrelated to crime or violence. Many of these "crews" exist through MySpace, and the crew's initials were often placed in square brackets in a person's MySpace name. This was a common trend around 2007-early 2008.
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News tagged with crew
Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission
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Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility ...
NASA's Orion Spacecraft Passes Significant Design Milestone
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Sep 01, 2009 |
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NASA has taken a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle by completing the Orion Project's preliminary design review, or PDR. Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International ...
NASA Successfully Tests Alternate Launch Abort System for Astronaut Escape
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next generation of spacecraft will have the safest-ever astronaut escape system, a modern-day version of the reliable Apollo system. Like Apollo, the Orion launch abort system will ...
Common GPS could help better track airline flights
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental ...
Space station crew finally at full staff of six (w/Video)
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May 29, 2009 |
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The crew of the International Space Station has increased to six for the first time today with the arrival of three new residents including ESA astronaut Frank De Winne with the Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft.
Happy US-Russian crew deny 'divorce in space'
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Apr 10, 2009 |
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A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history.
Preparing for a journey to Mars: Crew locked for 105 days in simulator
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On 31 March, a crew of six, including a French pilot and a German engineer, will embark on a 105-day simulated Mars mission. They will enter a special facility at the Institute of Biomedical ...
Europe names crew for Mars 'mission'
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars.
Russian spacecraft docks with space station
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-13 to the Earth-facing port of the ...
Return to Sender: MISSE-6 Comes Home After More Than a Year in Space
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been eight years since the first Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE, arrived at the orbiting laboratory. During that time, more than 4,000 materials samples have ...
Russia signs deal to ferry astronauts in 2012
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May 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Russian space agency says it has signed a $306 million deal with NASA to ferry its astronauts to the international space station in 2012.
New dinner table top priority as ISS expands
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May 07, 2009 |
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Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six.
US space tourist's return put off by a day
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Apr 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A billionaire American space tourist in the middle of his second stay aboard the international space station will return to Earth a day later than originally planned, Russian space officials said ...
Discovery Docks to International Space Station
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At 5:19:53: p.m. EDT, space shuttle Discovery docked to the Pressurized Mating Adaptor on the front of the International Space Station's Harmony module.
Shuttle Discovery zooms toward space station
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Mar 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With a kick of its rocket thrusters, space shuttle Discovery zoomed to the international space station Tuesday to deliver one last set of solar wings that should bring the orbiting complex to full ...
