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Next ISS Crew Incompatible

Posted by michael on from the fun-and-games-until-someone-gets-pushed-out-the-airlock dept.

RobertB-DC writes "The International Space Station's replacement crew is being pulled for the B-Team. While the Reuters story quotes officials talking about "certain considerations", a Moscow Times article lays it on the line: '"Incompatible" ISS Crew Ditched' due to 'a psychological incompatibility.' The Russian-American team had already been shaken up once, when the original American member dropped out due to illness. Now, they're being replaced with a whole new pair."

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  1. oh, with *each other* by real_smiff · · Score: 4, Funny

    heh, when i read the title i thought they meant incompatible with the space station. like the american crew are too fat and wouldn't fit in the hatches or something. yeah, they'd definately want to consider that..

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  2. This just in by SLot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Associated Press, Feb 06 2004

    Moscow - The Soviet Space Program has traced the problem back to the popular American geek website slashdot.org. Apparently, the American astronaut, Leroy Chiao, was a regular reader of slashdot, and finally snapped when every time he gave a command to the cosmonaut, Valery Tokarev, replied "In Soviet Russia.."