Next ISS crew named
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2006, 7:39 AM ET (1139 GMT)
NASA announced Tuesday that it has named two astronauts for the next long-duration crew for the International Space Station, who will join a Russian cosmonaut there. Two members of the Expedition 14 crew, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, will fly to the ISS in September on a Soyuz spacecraft. They will later be joined by the third member of the ISS crew, astronaut Sunita Williams, who will come to the station on the STS-116 shuttle mission, which would fly either late this year or early next year, depending on the shuttle schedule. Tyurin has already spent a tour on the ISS, as a member of the Expedition 3 crew in 2001. Lopez-Alegria is a veteran of three shuttle flights, two of which visited the ISS, while Williams will be making her first space flight.
NASA announced Tuesday that it has named two astronauts for the next long-duration crew for the International Space Station, who will join a Russian cosmonaut there. Two members of the Expedition 14 crew, Michael Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, will fly to the ISS in September on a Soyuz spacecraft. They will later be joined by the third member of the ISS crew, astronaut Sunita Williams, who will come to the station on the STS-116 shuttle mission, which would fly either late this year or early next year, depending on the shuttle schedule. Tyurin has already spent a tour on the ISS, as a member of the Expedition 3 crew in 2001. Lopez-Alegria is a veteran of three shuttle flights, two of which visited the ISS, while Williams will be making her first space flight.
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