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New crew members for the Space Station announced (VIDEO)

Houston, USA - NASA astronmaut Jeff Williams will be Commander of Expedition 48

American space agency NASA and its international partners have appointed crew members for a 2016 mission to the International Space Station. US' astronaut Jeff Williams is scheduled to launch in spring 2016 and return to Earth in fall the same year. He will join space station Expedition 47 crew members in orbit and will remain aboard as part of Expedition 48 with cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg...

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Rome, Italy, 02/12/2014 13:52
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