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Esa to send its astronaut in Iss expedition

Moscow, Russia - It will blast from Russian cosmodrome on October 18

It has been signed yesterday a contract between Esa and the Russian space agency for the next mission tied to the Iss plan, to which a Spanish cosmonaut would have to participate as well. Esa (European Space Agency) will pay USD 12m to Russia in order to send in the space Pedro Duque, who would leave on October 18, together with two cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale, and will back with...

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Rome, Italy, 05/21/2003 09:46
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