Space Station crew switched round

Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Solovyov has been replaced by cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko. Solovyov had been named as the commander of the first Soyuz TM flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in May 1988, flying with Russian flight engineer Sergei Krikalev and US astronaut William Shepherd.

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