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US astronaut hands over ISS command to Russian cosmonaut

Tags: ISS, space, Sci-Tech, World, Russia, News
 
Mar 17, 2010 18:55 Moscow Time
Oleg Kotov. Photo: RIA-Novosti
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The American astronaut Jeffrey Williams has handed over the command of the International Space Station to the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov. NASA carried a live broadcast of the handover ceremony in which Kotov struck the ship’s bell according to tradition. At 11:03 Moscow time on Thursday the “Soyuz TMA-16” with Williams and the Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev is to leave the ISS. Work in orbit will be picked up by the 23rd crew, consisting of Kotov and two aeronautical engineers - Soichi Noguchi from Japan and Timothy Creamer from the US, who arrived on the ISS at the end of December. The current three-men crew will stay on the ISS until the arrival of “Soyuz TMA-18” in April. After the arrival of the new “Soyuz” three Russian cosmonauts will for the first time be working on the ISS simultaneously.

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