[FPSPACE] Russians dispute 500th Earth space traveler claim

[Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz]

Odd. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 11, 1997, page A7:

"Lucky for cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, her 
upcoming trip to MIR lasts just nine days. The 
last time she visited the Russian space station, 
she stayed six months-six too many if you ask her 
cosmonaut husband. He says women should stay put 
on Earth and take are of their families. She says 
go fly a kite.

[snip]

"When Kondakova, 40, returned from MIR in 1995 
after 169 days aloft-then a world space endurance 
for women the couple assumed she would never go 
back. Then shuttle commander Charles Precourt 
invited her to join his mission, where her 
language skills would be assets. Knondakova's 
husband, three time space flier Valery Ryumin, 
now director of Russia's end of the MIR_shuttle 
program, didn't approve, but he understood."
[snip]
"He went on: 'Its my opinion that a wife should 
stay at home for the most part, not at work and 
not in spaceflight...There's nothing new in that, 
because I think the majority of men will support 
me, because the majority of us would prefer that 
everything in our home is taken care of and 
everything is quiet and OK. It was the second 
time in just over a year that a high-level 
Russian space official had offered is blunt 
assessment of women in space. 'We know that women 
love to clean.'  Gen. Yuri Glazkov, deputy 
commander of the cosmonaut training center, said 
just before U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid took 
off...

[snip]

"Despite having sent the first woman into 
space...the Russian space program remains a 
patriarchic affair."

At 10:39 -0700 10/08/2009, ldm6306-fpspace at yahoo.com wrote:
>To Robert Pearlman,
>
>A human translation will be something like: "Roskosmos press-secretary
>indicated that "It would be more fair to give the 500th number to a
>lady, especially because she will be a member of a long-term ISS
>expedition." "
>
>"ëÔ•ý’”ÎË’ÓÒÚË •ý”Ë, ÒÚÓËÎÓ ·š Ô•ËÒ’ÓËÚ¸ 500-È ÌÓÏ• ”ýÏÂ, ÍÓÚÓ•ýþ, Í
>ÚÓÏÛ ÊÂ, ”ÓÎÊÌý ’ÓÈÚË ’ ÒÓÒÚý’ ”ÎËÚÂθÌÓÈ ›ÍÒÔ”˖ËË Ìý åäë", - ÓÚÏ—ýÂÚ
>Ô•ÂÒÒ-ÒÂÍ•ÂÚý•¸ êÓÒÍÓÒÏÓÒý."
>
>Message: 10
>Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:32:42 -0500
>From: Robert Pearlman <robert at collectspace.com>
>Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Russians dispute 500th Earth space traveler
>	claim
>To: "fpspace at friends-partners.org Partners"
>	<fpspace at friends-partners.org>
>Message-ID: <9A1F6DB9-9F00-4376-B725-EFBF0138ED00 at collectspace.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
>In the original linked story by Jim (if Google's translation is
>correct) there is the suggestion by Roscosmos that because Nicole
>Stott is both female and an ISS crew member, that she should earn the
>honor of the 500th in orbit (if STS-128 launches first).
>
>Can someone with a better grasp of Russian confirm that?
>
>"?????????????? ????, ?????? ??
>????????? 500-? ????? ????, ???????, ?
>???? ??, ?????? ????? ? ??????
>?????????? ?????????? ?? ???", -
>???????? ?????-????????? ??????????.
>
>Google's translation:
>
>"For the sake of justice, had assigned a 500 number and the lady,
>which, moreover, must enter into a long expedition to the ISS," - said
>press secretary Roscosmos."
>
>
>
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Prof. Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, Director
National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Space Law
Res Communis Aerospace Law Blog
The University of Mississippi School of Law
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University, MS 38677-1848
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