[FPSPACE] Survivor in space

[David Fowler]

The below article indicates that the Survivor castmember will orbit with the EO-30 commander and US businessman Dennis Tito in mid-2001.

This means that previously announced flight engineer Yuriy Baturin will be out of a job, and that EO-29 flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov will have to make a double flight, like Avdeyev recently did.

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Copyright 2000 Agence France Presse   
                                                     Agence France Presse 

                                                   August 12, 2000, Saturday 

SECTION: International news 

LENGTH: 206 words 

HEADLINE: US TV game show to offer prize trip to Mir space station 

DATELINE: MOSCOW, Aug 12 

BODY: 
   The US television game show "Survivor" is to offer a lucky contestant the prize of blasting into space for the Russian space station Mir, MirCorp said late on
Friday, cited by the Interfax news agency. 

Ten Americans, selected during the popular televised endurance game show, will take part in a training programme at Russia's Yuri Gagarin astronaut training
facility, MirCorp, which handles Mir's commercial ventures, said. 

A winner will be chosen during the training sessions, which will be aired on US television, and will then be rocket-propelled into space next year alongside a Russian
crew and US businessman Dennis Tito. 

Tito paid for his place in the space shuttle out of his own pocket. Despite his 59 years, he passed all the necessary medical tests with flying colours, a MirCorp
spokesman said last month. 

Facing mounting financial difficulties to keep the aging space station in orbit, MirCorp has turned to commercial ventures to finance two planned space voyages to
Mir next year. 

The first crew of astronauts are due to blast off at the beginning of 2001 and plan to stay in orbit several months. The second shuttle, which will carry the two
Americans, will head into space in summer. 



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