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    • MOSCOW, March 30 (AFP) Mar 30, 2007
     The crew of the International Space Station returned on board Friday after moving a Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another to make way for another spacecraft, Russia's space control centre said.

    "The cosmonauts ... have returned from the Soyuz back to the station," Interfax quoted a spokesman at the centre as saying.

    Piloted by Russian Mikhail Tyurin, the Soyuz was moved from an Earth-facing port of the ISS' Zarya module to another module to make way for a Soyuz that will bring Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and US space tourist Charles Simonyi.

    It took about half an hour for the crew, who also include Americans Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams, to manoeuvre the Soyuz from one port to the other, during which they travelled about a third of the way around the Earth, the US space agency NASA said on its Internet site.

    The new crew are due to blast off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space centre on April 7.




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