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Old April 20th 04, 07:20 PM
John Doe
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Default NASA Studying Russian 12-month Plan

During the Soyuz launch, the NASA commentator made a most interesting comment.
He mentioned that Fincke was going up for a 6 month mission, but omitted
Padalka's name.

That would lead me to believe that perhaps Padalka might stay for one year.

And it would put the rather last minute change in crews in perspective as
well. Perhaps Padalka is "compatible" with both Fincke and the next american
to come up, wheras the previous russian wasn't.

Of course, this is based on the assumption that the PAO commentator would have
been told to carefully not mention the russian crewmember's mission duration.