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Soyuz TMA-2 update, 20-04-2003

April 20, 2003. Baikonur cosmodrome.

Prelaunch processing of the Russian Soyuz TMA-2 cargo transport
vehicle carrying the members of Prime Crew-7 intended for flight to
the international Space Station is currently under way.

Designers inspection of the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft was completed.
Payload shroud roll on to the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft was completed.

Expedition Seven crews to the ISS consisting of Yu. Malenchenko, Ed
Lu (prime crew) and A. Kaleri, M. Foale (backup crew) arrived to
Baikonur to the launch site to immediate training for the flight to
the ISS scheduled on April 26.

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