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  • Astronaut will think of shuttle victims

    04/26/2003 11:11:10 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 1 replies · 174+ views
    The Antelope Valley Press ^ | April 26, 2003 | MARA D. BELLABY
    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - U.S. astronaut Edward Lu plans to don a badge from the Columbia mission when he blasts off Saturday in a Russian rocket, the first manned launch since the disaster. Lu said the mission to the international space station is not only filling the gap left by suspended shuttle flights - it's paying tribute to Columbia's seven astronauts. The shuttle disintegrated over Texas in February. "We are doing what I think they would have wanted and what their families would have wanted us to do - continue the process of flying into space," Lu said Friday. Russian and...