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Subj: Expedition 8 Crew Named
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 215.06 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 9, 2003
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The crew of the International Space Station marked 1,000 days of people
living aboard the station on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the two men who have been training for months to be the next
space-station crew have been assigned to the job officially.
Mike Foale, a British-born American, will serve as commander of the
two-man crew. Russian Alexander Kaleri will be the flight engineer and
the commander of the Russian Soyuz, which will take them to the outpost
Oct. 18.
On the flight, they'll be accompanied by Spaniard Pedro Duque. The
European Space Agency astronaut will visit the station for a few days,
then return to Earth with the current crew, Yuri Malenchenko and Ed Lu,
who have been aboard since April. They will return in the Soyuz that
took Lu and Malenchenko to the station.
Foale and Kaleri were the backup crew for Lu and Malenchenko. Their
backup crew will be NASA astronaut Bill McArthur, who has been on three
shuttle missions, and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev.
[ANS thanks Florida Today for the above information.]
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