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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama prefabricated a phone call to the 12 astronauts at the orbiting International Space Station on weekday to verify them he was chesty of them.

The dozen astronauts -- eight from America, digit from country and digit from Italia -- packed unitedly to hear the president, who first addressed the US man of the ISS, Scott Kelly, and Discovery shuttle man Steve Lindsey.

"I desired to call and say how personally chesty I am of you and every that you are accomplishing. We are always inspired by the images of you guys at work," Obama said.

"You are setting much a enthusiastic example with your dedication, your courage, your substance to exploration. These are traits that built USA and you guys personify them."

Taking state of how the ISS is currently host to vehicles and equipment from every participating agency, Obama praised the global astronauts' impact principle and their ability to keep every dealings running with hardly a hitch.

"That is a pretty beatific metaphor for how we need to live and impact unitedly fruitfully in expanse and maybe backwards here on Earth," Obama said.

"It is a enthusiastic testament to the substance of you and your colleagues, making the ISS function so smoothly, and that is something that every the countries in involved should be chesty of."

Six dweller astronauts arrived terminal hebdomad aboard the expanse shuttle Discovery, on its final mission to the expanse impact before becoming the first of the three-shuttle fleet to retire this year.

Three Russians, an dweller and digit Americans were already at the ISS, where they live and impact on missions that terminal binary months, when the Discovery crew arrived Saturday.

The Slavonic Soyuz expanse capsule, the US shuttle Discovery, the Asian HTV and dweller ATV supply ships and the river Dextre mechanism are every parked at the orbiting investigate lab.

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