Russian Scratched From Scheduled Spacewalk
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A Russian astronaut aboard the International Space Station has been scratched from a spacewalk because of a medical problem that cropped up after his launch in November, NASA said.
NASA would not divulge the medical condition of Nikolai Budarin, one of three astronauts living on the space outpost, but the agency said it did not affect Budarin’s other duties in orbit.
American science officer Donald Pettit will take Budarin’s place alongside the station commander, Kenneth Bowersox, on the Jan. 15 spacewalk performing construction tasks.
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