[FPSPACE] Fwd: First manned mission to ISS space station could be delayed: Russia

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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:00:14 PDT
Organization: Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)

   MOSCOW, Oct 16 (AFP) - The first manned mission to the  
International Space Station (ISS), scheduled to begin October 30, 
could be delayed up to three days, the project's Russian partner 
Energiya told AFP Monday. 
   A three-man US-Russian is crew due to blast off aboard a Soyuz  
rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but the late 
departure of the shuttle Discovery sent to equip the ISS last week, 
threatens to hold up the mission. 
   "A final decision on the matter has yet to be taken, but this  
delay is likely," an Energiya spokesman said, citing the shuutle's 
delayed mission to the ISS as the cause. 
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