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First Brazilian In Space To Blast Off On March 30
Star City, Russia (AFP) Feb 08, 2006 Brazil is to send its first man into space next month when an air force officer blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS), the officer told a news conference on Wednesday. Marcos Pontes, 42, will accompany US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov on a Russian Soyuz rocket that will take off from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan on March 30, he said. He will spend about eight days aboard the ISS before returning to Earth with its current occupants, NASA's William McArthur and Russian Valery Tokarev, landing on April 9, Pontes said at the news conference at the Star City space training centre near Moscow. Pontes has already undergone nearly eight months' training in the United States. While at the ISS he will oversee a number of nanotechnology experiments, he said.
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Shuttle Still Dominates But Exploration Vision Taking Over At NASA
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 8, 2006The space shuttle continues to occupy the biggest budget line item in NASA's funding request for fiscal year 2007, but the agency will be devoting a large percentage of its spending to launch the new Vision for Exploration in the near future, and is subtly ramping up its activity toward that end. |
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