A fresh Soyuz is scheduled for launch April 28, the same day Endeavour is to undock from the station. The taxi crew is scheduled to spend about six days aboard the station before returning to Earth in the Soyuz currently attached to the outpost. NASA managers and the station's other international partners oppose Tito's visit, arguing that he poses a safety risk and an unwelcome distraction to the station's full-time crew during a particularly busy phase of assembly and checkout. But NASA and the other partners appear powerless to stop Russia from launching Tito on a Russian spacecraft that will dock with a Russian station module. At a news conference today, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin said only that negotiations are continuing and no final decisions have been made.
Safety is our number one objective.
We are very systematically working it at a professional level, and I expect before the launch of Mr. Tito, all these issues will be resolved, it'll be a nonissue. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.