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Soyuz TMA-01M space shuttle will return to Earth on Wednesday

Cape Canaveral, USA - Today, Scott Kelly leaves the ISS command to Dmitry Kondratyev

NASA has unveiled that today, Monday, March 14th, Scott J. Kelly will leave the command of the ISS, International Space Station, to the flight engineer Dmitry Kondratyev. The commander of the 26th Expedition will return to Earth the day after tomorrow, Wednesday, March 16th, on the spacecraft Soyuz TMA-01M; with him will fly the flight engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka. With their departure,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1126922
Rome, Italy, 03/14/2011 12:54
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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