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International Space Station: crews for the next expeditions announced (VIDEO)

Houston, USA - Samantha Cristoforetti will be the first Italian woman in space

NASA, the American space agency, and the other agencies of the countries involved in the International Space Station announced the crew members of the next missions bound for the orbiting spacecraft. Expedition 39, which will be launched in late March 2014, will be led by Koichi Wakata, astronaut of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa): the other members of the mission will be Richard Mastracchio...

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Rome, Italy, 01/15/2013 18:30
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