Shuttle Is Readied for U.S.-Russian Mission
<i> Associated Press</i>
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. —
NASA began fueling the space shuttle Discovery late Wednesday for a scheduled 4:10 a.m. PST launch today with Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and five U.S. astronauts.
It will be the first time a Russian has flown on a U.S. shuttle, and the first joint U.S.-Russian human space mission since the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking. Both countries expect Discovery’s eight-day voyage to lead to more shared missions and, by 2001, a shared space station.
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