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Monday, 12 May 2008

Astronauts prepare for new shuttle mission

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By Irene Klotz Cape Canaveral, Florida - Seven astronauts charged with delivering a European science laboratory into orbit arrived at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Monday to prepare for Thursday's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. If the launch occurs at its scheduled time of 4.31pm, Atlantis will reach the...

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NASA astronaut Peggy A. Whitson (right), Expedition 16 commander; cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko (center), Soyuz commander and flight engineer representing Russia´s Federal Space Agency; and Malaysian spaceflight participant Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor give a "thumbs-up" signal while protected behind glass during the State Commission meeting and press conference Oct. 9, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The crew is in preparation for their launch to the International Space Station Oct. 10 in their Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft. Whitson and Malenchenko will spend six months on the station while Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 with two of the Expedition 15 crewmembers currently on the complex. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov ( fa0 ) wnhires

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