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Subj: Expedition 9 Ready to Fly on April 19
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 095.07 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. April 4, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-095.07
Three astronauts will blast off for the International Space Station
(ISS) on April 19, two of them to replace the team which has been there
since last October, officials at the Russian space agency said
Wednesday.
Russian Gennady Padalka and American Michael Fincke will replace Alexei
Kalery and Michael Foale, and will spend six months at the station,
officials said.
Dutchman Andre Kuipers, a 45-year-old astronaut with the European Space
Agency, will spend less than two weeks at the station. He is due to
return to earth with Kalery and Foale on April 30.
The trio recently completed preparations for the mission at Star City,
an astronaut training center outside the Russian capital Moscow.
The three are due to blast off for the ISS aboard a Soyuz rocket from
Russia's launching pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Padalka and Fincke are due to perform two space walks in June and
August to install equipment necessary for the European-built new
automated transfer vehicle, which is due to arrive at the station in
April 2005.
[ANS thanks Space Daily for the above information.]
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