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Launch Preparations Of Soyuz TMA-7 Started On Baikonur
Moscow (SPX) Aug 12, 2005 The Roscosmos team is to start launch preparations of the manned spaceship Soyuz TMA-7 today; the spaceship was delivered by railway to Baikonur on the 6th August � said Oleg Urusov, spokesman of FSC Baikonur. Soyuz TMA-7 was delivered to the Assembly & Test Facility of Site 254 and placed into the stand. At the moment the Roscosmos team is preparing to perform electrical tests. Soyuz TMA-7 launch to the International Space Station with the main crew of Expedition 12 aboard - V. Tokarev and W. McArthur (back-up crew - ?. Lazutkin and J. Williams) and the space tourist G. Olsen from Site 1 of Baikonur is scheduled for the 1st October. 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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