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Russia To Sign Contract To Launch South Korean Astronaut Into Space

Training for the two South Koreans should start at Star City outside Moscow in early 2007.
by Staff Writers
 Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 30, 2006
 Russia will sign a contract with South Korea December 7 to launch the East Asian country's first astronaut on board a Russian carrier rocket in 2008, the Federal Space Agency said Wednesday. The number of hopefuls to become South Korea's first ever astronaut has dropped from 36,000 to 30. The final candidate and one reserve will be selected soon.

Two final candidates will start training at Russia's Gagarin space center near Moscow in spring 2007, according to agency press secretary Igor Panarin.

"The project has the South Korean president's special support, and will serve to strengthen relations between Russia and South Korea," Panarin said, adding the project was 100% financed by Seoul.

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 First South Korean Astronaut Planned In 2008
 Moscow (AFP) Nov 29 - South Korea's first astronaut could blast into space in early 2008 aboard a Russian Soyuz vessel under an accord due to be signed between Moscow and Seoul next week, Russia's space agency said Wednesday.

"Ten (South Korean) candidates have been chosen out of 36,000 volunteers. Two of them, the astronaut and his reserve, could be put forward by the South Koreans on December 7 in Moscow," Roskosmos spokesman Igor Panarin told AFP.

Training for the two South Koreans should start at Star City outside Moscow in early 2007, he said, adding that the costs would be met by the South Korean government.

Source: Agence France-Presse

Source: RIA Novosti

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