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Space station crew may face another bumpy re-entry (Reuters)

Smoke rises at the area where the Soyuz capsule, carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko, landed in northern Kazakhstan April 19, 2008. (Sergei Remezov/Reuters)Reuters - The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) could have a rough return to Earth because their re-entry capsule has the same glitch that caused problems on the last two landings, a Russian space industry source said.


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