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South Korea Screening Astronaut Hopefuls
Seoul (UPI) Oct 17, 2004 South Korea's first two astronauts will be chosen next May, the Korea Times reported Sunday. The Ministry of Science and Technology said the two will be recruited through a four-step selection process, starting with screening of written applications in December. They will train at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia from July 2005 to March 2007 before boarding the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in October 2007 for a 10-day stay in the Russian module of the International Space Station. The selection process begins in January when 200 candidates will be selected. Thirty will come out of the second stage after physical and mental exams, written tests and other steps, followed by more testing to cut the list to 10 before the final two are chosen. The project is being paid for by $5 million in ministry financing and $17.6 million from a broadcasting network. All rights reserved. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of by United Press International. 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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