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NASA to Cut Space Station's Crew to Two Astronauts.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 28--WASHINGTON--The three astronauts aboard the international space station will be replaced by a two-person crew in the spring as NASA tries to keep the outpost running on limited resources.

Scientific experiments are the primary rationale for the station, and NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told a congressional committee Thursday that the crew still will be able conduct research. But some experts did not share that view.

"It would curtail them severely," said Rae Silver, a professor at Columbia University who last year chaired a panel of experts commissioned by NASA to evaluate the scientific potential of the station.

The new crew -- one...

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