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Article: Shuttle Races for Space Station
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- March 9, 2001
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JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-09-2001
Shuttle Races for Space Station
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery raced toward the international space station to deliver the first replacement crew for the orbiting outpost.
The shuttle is scheduled to make its 235-mile-high hookup with space station Alpha early Saturday.
The main objective of Discovery's 12-day flight is to exchange Alpha crews. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev and American astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms will move into the space station for a 4{-month stay. Helms will be the first woman to live on the space station.
Discovery, which blasted off early Thursday, will bring back space ...
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