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Subj: Soyuz to Ferry ISS Crews
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 061.07 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. March 2, 2003
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told a congressional panel February 27
that space agency officials had reached an agreement Wednesday with
International Space Station partners to keep the orbiting research
platform functioning for at least the next 18 months.
The two astronauts and one cosmonaut currently on board the station
will return to Earth in late April or early May aboard the Soyuz
capsule docked with the station. They will be replaced by one astronaut
and one cosmonaut, who will fly to the station on a new Soyuz. They
are training at Star City in Russia.
Having two people aboard will help extend supplies while the shuttle
fleet remains grounded, pending the outcome of the Columbia accident
investigation.
Russia has agreed to accelerate the delivery of two Progress re-supply
vehicles so that there will be four Progress delivery ships this year
and five next year, O'Keefe said.
The autonomous vehicles are used to deliver food, water and other
supplies but lack the large cargo capacity of a U.S. shuttle.
Soyuz flights to the station will continue on a their regular six-month
[ANS thanks Florida Today for the above information.]
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