Astronaut, Cosmonaut to Head to Space Station
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American astronaut Edward Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, who performed a spacewalk together in 1997, will return to the international space station this month and replace its current crew, NASA said in Houston.
Lu, 39, a physicist, and Malenchenko, 41, a pilot and engineer, should have flown to the space station last month on the shuttle Atlantis. But the Columbia catastrophe grounded NASA’s shuttles.
They are scheduled to lift off April 26 from Kazakhstan.
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