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Russia replaces two cosmonauts on next space station crew for 'medical reasons':
Two Russian cosmonauts have been removed from the next scheduled launch to the International Space Station "for medical reasons," according to the Russian space agency.
In a statement posted to its website on Wednesday (Feb. 19), Roscosmos said that Nikolai Tikhonov and Andrei Babkin will no longer fly to the space station in April, and will instead be replaced by backup crew members.
"The positions of the commander and flight engineer of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft will now be taken by Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoli Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner," the agency said [In Russian]. "The changes will affect only the Russian part of the crew."
A NASA spokesperson confirmed that U.S. astronaut Chris Cassidy will continue to prepare for the mission, which will now see him, Ivanishin and Vagner serve as the Expedition 63 crew on board the space station.
Roscosmos provided few details about the medical concerns that led to the crew change. The agency's director of human spaceflight, former cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, said in a news briefing that the issue involved one of the two replaced crew members.
"Due to personal data, we will not disclose it yet," said Krikalev, according to the Interfax news agency.
Russian media reports, citing unnamed sources, said that it was Tikhonov who had suffered an injury. Roscosmos appeared to support that by confirming that Babkin, along with cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, had been reassigned as the new Soyuz MS-16 backup crew members.
Ivanishin, Vagner and Cassidy are scheduled to launch on April 9 atop a Soyuz-2.1a booster from Site 31 at Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will be the first spaceflight for Vagner and the third for both Ivanishin and Cassidy.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 21 2020, @04:27PM (3 children)
Then the editor needs to directly attribute who said it. (The summary title. The article attributes it correctly but missed the intro comma before the quotes.) Better sentence construction would have been: Two Russian cosmonatus have been removed from the next scheduled International Space Station launch for what the Russian Space Agency described as, "medical reasons."
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 21 2020, @04:29PM
And better title construction would have been: Russia replaces two cosmonauts for next ISS launch for medical reasons. (No quotes necessary). Or Russia replaces two cosmonauts for next ISS launch described as, "medical reasons".
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 21 2020, @04:42PM (1 child)
It's attributed in the very first sentence!
Two Russian cosmonauts have been removed from the next scheduled launch to the International Space Station "for medical reasons," according to the Russian space agency.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 21 2020, @04:56PM
OK. Why are the quotes necessary at all? Why is this not equally clear and correct: Two Russian cosmonauts have been removed from the next scheduled launch to the International Space Station for medical reasons, according to the Russian space agency.
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