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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas 77058 AC 713 483-5111

Rh Jeffrey Carr Release No. 90-013

Shuttle Astronauts to Attend Soviet Space Launch

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has accepted an invitation for Shuttle astronauts to attend a Soviet manned space launch and to tour space facilities in the Soviet Union this month. The invitation was extended to NASA astronauts earlier this year by General Alexei Leonov, Deputy Head of the Y. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Members of the astronaut delegation traveling to the Soviet Union are JSC Deputy Director Paul J. Weitz, Chief Astronaut Daniel C. Brandenstein, Ronald J. Grabe, and Jerry L. Ross.

The group is scheduled to arrive in Moscow on February 9, and will travel to Baikonour the following day to tour launch facilities there and to view a manned launch. The group will also travel to Star City, near Moscow, to visit the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and to the Manned Spaceflight Control Center in Kaliningrad, before returning on February 14.