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951 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 03:53 PM
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Next space station crew to launch
Expedition 10, the next crew to live on the International Space Station (ISS), is set to launch from Kazakhstan.

US astronaut Leroy Chiao and Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov will leave the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a Soyuz rocket at 0306GMT on Thursday.

It will take them until Friday to reach the orbiting platform, where they will work on handover tasks with the outgoing Expedition 9 crew for 10 days.

Chiao and Sharipov will then be left alone on t...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3740298.stm
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