South Korea first astronaut to fly to ISS in Russia spacecraft, Itar-Tass

“South Koreas first astronaut is to fly to the International Space Stations (ISS) in March or April of 2008, the chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said at his meeting with a delegation of the Korean Aerospace Research Institute led by its president Hong Yul Pak in Moscow on Monday.”

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