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Launch Preparations Of Soyuz TMA-7 Started On Baikonur

Expedition 12 crew members William McArthur and Valeri Tokarev.
Moscow (SPX) Aug 12, 2005
The Roscosmos team is to start launch preparations of the manned spaceship Soyuz TMA-7 today; the spaceship was delivered by railway to Baikonur on the 6th August � said Oleg Urusov, spokesman of FSC Baikonur.

Soyuz TMA-7 was delivered to the Assembly & Test Facility of Site 254 and placed into the stand. At the moment the Roscosmos team is preparing to perform electrical tests.

Soyuz TMA-7 launch to the International Space Station with the main crew of Expedition 12 aboard - V. Tokarev and W. McArthur (back-up crew - ?. Lazutkin and J. Williams) and the space tourist G. Olsen from Site 1 of Baikonur is scheduled for the 1st October.

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