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André Kuipers
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Born 5 October 1958 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

In December 2002, André Kuipers was assigned as a Board Engineer for a Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS) which is scheduled to take place end of April 2004.

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Valery Tokarev
Valery Ivanovich Tokarev - Colonel, Russian Air Force, Test cosmonaut at the Yuri.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre.

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William McArthur
William Surles "Bill" McArthur, Jr., (Colonel, USA, Ret.) NASA astronaut.

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