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Woman Replaces Colleague for South Korea’s First Space Mission
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/world/asia/11korea.html?re...
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20 months, 6 days, 7 hours agoSEOUL, South Korea — South Korea announced Monday that a woman who is a bioengineering student would become its first astronaut. She is scheduled to blast off on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on April 8 on a trip to the International Space Station that will be watched on television by millions of South Koreans.
The astronaut, Yi So-yeon, 29, was selected after the Russian space
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