[FPSPACE] Doctors removed Aleksandr Lazutkin from the preparation for the flight to ISS

[Jim Oberg]

Doctors removed Aleksandr Lazutkin from the preparation for the flight to ISS 

 

29.08.2005, 13.25 [0935 gmt] (machine-translation smoothed a little)

MOSCOW, on 29 August. /Corr. ITAR- TASS Helen Zubtsova/. 

In the composition of the backup of the 12th basic expedition to the international space station, which must leave for orbit in the beginning of October, has occurred a replacement. In the beginning of August Aleksandr Lazutkin for medical indications was removed from the composition of the backup crew of ISS -12, instead of him Mikhail Turin was assigned, who had backed up the commander ISS -11 Sergey Krikalev now working in orbit of. In the backup team, despite the practice of changing the entire crew in the case of the disease of one person, this time occurred only one swap. Jeffrey Williams as before backs up NASA astronaut William McArthur, and as the understudy of the third space tourist Gregory Olsen appears the head of the Russian representation of the company "Space Adventures" Sergey Kostenko.