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European Astronaut To Spend Months On Space Station
Paris (AFP) Apr 28, 2005 German astronaut Thomas Reiter is to spend more than six months aboard the three-man International Space Station (ISS), starting this summer, the European Space Agency said Thursday. ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration, Daniel Sacotte, recently signed an agreement on the mission with the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov. "The agreement covers the ESA astronauts flight in a crew position originally planned for a Russian cosmonaut", explained Sacotte, "and he will perform all the tasks originally allocated to the second Russian cosmonaut on board the ISS and, in addition, an ESA experimental programme." Reiter is a member of the European Astronaut Corps, based at ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. Leopold Eyharts, from France, a member of the same corps, will be the back-up for this mission. Reiter will reach the ISS on space shuttle flight STS-121 currently planned for next July, and return to Earth on flight STS-116 in February. This will be Reiter's second long-duration mission on board a space station, following his six-month stay on the Russian Mir, 10 years ago, during the ESA Euromir 1995 mission. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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