Station Crew Entertains Some European Visitors
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The three men living on the international space station welcomed their first guests with the arrival of a Russian spaceship carrying two cosmonauts and a French researcher.
The Soyuz capsule docked with space station Alpha two days after rocketing away from Kazakhstan.
Arriving via the Soyuz were Russians Viktor Afanasyev and Konstantin Kozeyev and French astronaut-physician Claudie Haignere. Afanasyev, the commander of the Soyuz, steered the capsule for the 250-mile-high linkup over China.
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