[FPSPACE] Afanasyev and Kuzhelnaya Question

[Rex Hall]

Good Evening.
I understand that the Afanasyev ,Kuzhelnaya crew are still on line to
fly.Kuzhelnaya has been learning English for some time and gets by.
Deshays should be in the Third seat for ISS taxi 2 with Tokarev and Kozeyev.
What is the date for the First taxi launch.The Soyuz needs to be back after
around 196 days give or take.So 31st October.May is pushing it unless its
early in the month with the Musabayev ,Baturin crew.Remember Musabayev
originally trained with Kuzhelnaya for the taxi mission but was moved on to
Mir.If English is an issue they could change Commanders.
Have a successful 2001.
Rex
----- Original Message -----
From: <JamesOberg@aol.com>
To: <barnesy@asiaonline.net>; <fpspace@friends-partners.org>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Afanasyev and Kuzhelnaya Question


> In a message dated 12/29/00 9:47:17 AM Central Standard Time,
> barnesy@asiaonline.net writes:
>
> << What happened to the Afanasyev/Kuzhelnaya crew to ISS?
>   The last information I got was that they would fly the first Soyuz
exchange
>  mission in April with Tokarev and Kozeyev flying the same type of mission
in
>  October. Where do Musabayev, Baturin  and Tito fit into all of this? >>
>
> So far we only have a statement on gazeta.ru attributed to Rosaviakosmos
> sources that Tito will be on the next Soyuz to ISS, with the crew he had
been
> training with for the Mir mission. Since Musabayev and Baturin speak
pretty
> good English, and apparently Afanasyev and Kuzhelnaya don't, Tito's
presence
> may have been the primary motivation. But we're still waiting for
> confirmation. The shift would also put Afanasyev in command of another
> mission with a French cosmonaut, he's done that before.
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