[FPSPACE] Tito to Alpha ?

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 11/20/00 8:34:54 AM Central Standard Time, 
> raoul.lannoy@pandora.be writes: << Very hard to believe it! >>
> 
> Not so hard at all. Although NASA is unhappy at the idea, Russia retains full 
> authority to choose the occupant of the third Soyuz seat. 

However, if you read the space.com article, they quote a Russian space
official (Gorbunov?) saying that it will not happen.  He also says that
they do not feel that Tito has a "valid cosmonaut certificate," whatever
that means.

It is interesting to note that Energia and the Russian space agency seem
to be at odds over this stuff--Energia wants to do a lot of things that
the Russian space agency does not want them to do.



DDAY