World IN BRIEF : RUSSIA : Space Station Duo Unveiled in D.C.
A Russian and an American will make up the first team to operate the international space station when it is ready for occupancy in 1998, Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin announced at the conclusion of two days of talks in Washington. The station will be assembled in space beginning in November 1997. Astronaut William M. Shepherd and cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev will be launched to the yet-unnamed station aboard a Soyuz rocket from a launch site in Kazakhstan. The target date has not been announced.
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