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Roscosmos: Interagency Commission to approve TMA-02 crews today (VIDEO)

Moscow, Russia - Leaving in June

Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos announces that Interagency Commission should meet today, May 16, 2011, in order to "Review training results and to confirm flight readiness of the Soyuz TMA-02? crews". On Friday, at Gagarin Traning Center of Roscosmos, prime crew -formed by Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos, Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA and Michael Fossum of NASA- and backup crew, formed by Olega Kononeko,...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1129599
Rome, Italy, 05/16/2011 06:35
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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