{author}        National Aeronautics and Space Administration

{date}          10-Apr-2003

{description}   Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan -- Cosmonaut Yuri I. Malenchenko,
                Expedition Seven commander dons his Russian Sokol suit for the
                leak check and Soyuz inspection, seat liner check. Veteran
                Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and veteran NASA astronaut Ed
                Lu have been named as the primary crew for the planned April 26,
                2003, launch of a Russian Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft to the
                International Space Station. Malenchenko and Lu will be called
                the Expedition 7 crew. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and
                NASA astronaut Michael Foale are the backup crewmembers to
                Malenchenko and Lu. Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight
                Engineer Nikolai Budarin and NASA Space Station Science Officer
                Don Pettit will return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 craft in
                May 2003. The three Expedition 6 crewmembers were launched on
                Nov. 23, 2002. They have been aboard the Station since November
                25. They were originally scheduled to return in March aboard the
                Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-114 mission. Malenchenko
                and Lu will continue to operate the science payloads already on
                board, as well as maintaining the Station. Photo Credit:
                NASA/Bill Ingalls

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