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- From: glennc@cs.sfu.ca (Glenn Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Russian/French mission to Mir: agreement signed for future ones
- Keywords: Space, Russian, French
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.203019.16569@cs.sfu.ca>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 20:30:19 GMT
- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- The Russian/French Soyuz TM-15 mission to the CIS (Commonwealth of
- Independent States) Mir space station has begun its research. French
- President Mitterand spoke with the crew, cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov, Sergei
- Avdeyev from the Soyuz TM-15, long term crew Alexander Viktorenko and
- Alexander Kaleri, plus French "spationaut" Michel Tognini. Viktorenko and
- Kaleri, and Tognini will return in the Soyuz TM-14 on Aug. 10th. On July
- 29th French and CIS officials signed an agreement to send joint missions of 14
- day duration to Mir every two years for the next eight years, paid for by
- the French. Solovyov and Avdeyev will stay up until January, which means they
- may not return with the scheduled Israeli mission in November or that mission
- has been delayed until January. (From Radio Moscow reports).
- Since Mir is currently occupied by two crews a year the French/CIS
- agreement means that half of the cosmonaut replacement missions for the rest
- of this decade are payed for.
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- Glenn Chapman
- School Eng. Science
- Simon Fraser U.
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- glennc@cs.sfu.ca
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