[FPSPACE] South Korea swaps first astronaut

[Peter Pesavento]

I'd like to know what the book was he wasn't allowed to have or read?

Does this sound like a return to the Cold War?

Like the old-time KGB provocation.  They target a person, then get them
involved in something that would guarantee that they either face jail, or
get kicked out of the country...

Should read up on the adventures of a US journalist named Shub.  1969.



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[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Luca Coren
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:18 AM
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Subject: [FPSPACE] South Korea swaps first astronaut

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7286989.stm

South Korea says its first astronaut will now be a female engineer, 
after Russian officials rejected the initial candidate over a breach of 
rules.

Yi So-yeon, 29, is to replace Ko San, 31, on a Russian flight to the 
International Space Station in April.

Russia's Federal Space Agency requested the change because Mr Ko broke 
training centre rules, a senior official said.

South Korean officials played down the breaches, which involved removing 
reading material from the centre.

On one occasion, Mr Ko sent a training book back to South Korea - 
something he said was by mistake.

On another, he received a book from a Russian colleague that he was not 
meant to read, said Lee Sang-mok of South Korea's Ministry of Education, 
Science and Technology.

[...]


Greetings,
Luca
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