New crew gets ready for trip to Mir station

The Soyuz TM29 mission of Russian Viktor Afanasyev, Frenchman Jean Pierre Haignere and Slovak Ivan Bella has been cleared for launch to the Mir space station on 20 February. It will be the first Soviet mission with two guest cosmonauts aboard, withveteran Haignere the first foreign flight engineer.

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