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April 25, 2003. Baikonur cosmodrome.

A meeting of the State Board was held at which the Soyuz TMA-2 and
ISS-7 prime and backup crews were approved, as well as a decision was
made to continue the Rocket & Space Complex processing for filling
and launch within the scheduled time.

The prime crew consists of: Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko, commander -
flight cosmonaut of RF, test cosmonaut of the Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center, and Edward Tsang Lu, NASA's astronaut, flight engineer.
The backup crew consists of: Alexander Yurievich Kaleri, commander -
flight engineer of RF, test cosmonaut of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia,
and Colin Michael Foale, NASA's astronaut, flight engineer.

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