NASA astronaut 'too tall' for Soyuz

NASA ASTRONAUT Scott Parazinsky's departure from the Russian cosmonaut centre at Star City, after training for a planned 143-day flight aboard the Mir 1 space station in August 1997, has exposed a potentially serious deterioration in relations between the two countries in the build-up to the Alpha space station.

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