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| | Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Mir cosmonauts prepared for new manned mission 08/13/98 |
 | | Next Mir space station crew members politician and former presidential advisor Yuri Baturin, right, flight commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev, left, wave to the press during their last news conference at the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakstan, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998. |
 | | The new crew of Baturin, Avdeyev and engineer Gennady Padalka is to stay on the Mir until February. |
 | | However, Avdeyev may remain on the orbiter until next June, when the Mir is to be closed and lowered to Earth. |
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