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Team Work in Space

Aired October 18, 2003 - 07:07   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: To teamwork in outer space now. A new crew is heading for the international space station. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off just about six hours ago.
Our Jill Dougherty joins us live now from Moscow with more on the mission -- hello to you, Jill.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi.

Well, there was no glitch. Everything worked perfectly as that Soyuz capsule carrying three cosmonauts and astronauts -- an American, a Russian and a European -- blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Destination, the $95 billion international space station.

The main crew, Alexander Kaleri, who is a Russian, and Michael Foale from NASA, will be spending about six months, up until April of next year. And what will they be doing there? Well, a bit of housekeeping. You have to do that at the space station, very important. And experiments and two space walks are also planned.

The Spaniard who is aboard on this flight, Pedro Duque, will be going up just for about eight days aboard, a 10 day trip in all, and he will be returning with the seventh expedition, the team that's already up there. That is Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu.

The flight comes just three days after China launched its first man into space and so it's somewhat overshadowed this flight. But CNN spoke with astronaut Michael Foale before he went up and he said the Chinese, it was an historic flight and that it's great. He was glad that more countries are going off into the stars.

Russia, the Russian claim, the Russian rockets have been ferrying crews both to and from the ISS, along with supplies, ever since, as we remember, back in February, the Shuttle Columbia exploded on the way back on reentry -- Heidi.

COLLINS: All right, Jill Dougherty, thanks so much for the update on all of that.

Appreciate it.

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Aired October 18, 2003 - 07:07   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: To teamwork in outer space now. A new crew is heading for the international space station. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off just about six hours ago.
Our Jill Dougherty joins us live now from Moscow with more on the mission -- hello to you, Jill.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi.

Well, there was no glitch. Everything worked perfectly as that Soyuz capsule carrying three cosmonauts and astronauts -- an American, a Russian and a European -- blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Destination, the $95 billion international space station.

The main crew, Alexander Kaleri, who is a Russian, and Michael Foale from NASA, will be spending about six months, up until April of next year. And what will they be doing there? Well, a bit of housekeeping. You have to do that at the space station, very important. And experiments and two space walks are also planned.

The Spaniard who is aboard on this flight, Pedro Duque, will be going up just for about eight days aboard, a 10 day trip in all, and he will be returning with the seventh expedition, the team that's already up there. That is Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lu.

The flight comes just three days after China launched its first man into space and so it's somewhat overshadowed this flight. But CNN spoke with astronaut Michael Foale before he went up and he said the Chinese, it was an historic flight and that it's great. He was glad that more countries are going off into the stars.

Russia, the Russian claim, the Russian rockets have been ferrying crews both to and from the ISS, along with supplies, ever since, as we remember, back in February, the Shuttle Columbia exploded on the way back on reentry -- Heidi.

COLLINS: All right, Jill Dougherty, thanks so much for the update on all of that.

Appreciate it.

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