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ISS Crew Landing Put Off To Avoid Spring Floods
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 18, 2007 The landing of the 14th Expedition crew has been postponed for one day to avoid early spring flooding on the Kazakh steppe, a Russian space official said Tuesday. "The schedule change is not related to the work of the crew," Igor Panarin said. "It was caused by the decision to avoid the spring flood in the region at the previously selected landing zone." According to a revised schedule, U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin of the 14th ISS Expedition, who began working at the world's sole orbital station on September 20, together with the fifth space tourist, Hungarian-born American software billionaire Charles Simonyi, will return to Earth on April 21 instead of April 20. Simonyi, who is a trained pilot in multi-engine aircraft with current licenses in jets and helicopters and more than 2,000 hours of flying time under his belt, arrived at the International Space Station on April 10 together with the 15th ISS crew. The new crew consists of Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov, both from Russia, who are scheduled to spend 189 days at the station and will conduct three spacewalks, one in U.S.-made spacesuits and the other two in Russian-made outfits. The third crew member, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, who replaced the European Space Agency's German astronaut Thomas Reiter in December 2006, will stay on board the ISS for a further several months. They will later be joined by astronaut Clayton Anderson, who will be launched aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor June 28, and Daniel Tani, who will arrive with the Space Shuttle Discovery, scheduled for lift off September 7.
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