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arls010 nasa selects expedition 7 crew
nasa named veteran russian cosmonaut yuri malenchenko, rk3dup, and veteran nasa astronaut ed lu, kc5wkj, as the international space station's expedition 7 primary crew april 1. malenchenko, the crew commander, and lu will be the first two-person iss crew and the first to travel to the space station on a russian soyuz tma-2 spacecraft. plans call for an april 26 launch from kazakhstan.
russian cosmonaut alexander kaleri, u8mir and nasa astronaut mike foale, kb5uac, are the back-up crewmembers for expedition 7.
originally scheduled to return in march aboard the space shuttle atlantis sts-114 mission, expedition 6 commander ken bowersox, kd5jbp, flight engineer nikolai budarin, rv3fb, and nasa space station science officer don pettit, kd5mdt, will return to earth aboard a soyuz craft in may. they have been in space since november 23.
the fresh crew will remain in space until october, when a new crew will be sent up. nasa has said that until the space shuttle returns to flight-ready status, russian soyuz vehicles will handle iss crew rotations. additional unmanned russian progress cargo rocket flights have been scheduled to keep the iss well stocked. nnnn /ex