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ESA astronaut Claudie Haignere and her two Russian colleagues
returned to Earth this past week after successfully delivering a new
lifeboat to the International Space Station.

The Andromede crew safely descended to Earth in a Soyuz capsule,
ending a 10-day Russian-French mission. Together with fellow crew
members Commander Victor Afanassiev and Flight Engineer Konstantin
Kozeev, French born Claudie spent eight days onboard the space
station, completing the prime objective to deliver a new lifeboat (and
exchange it for an older Soyuz vehicle, which had been attached to ISS
for the past six months).

Now on their own once again, the Expedition-3 crewmembers will
continue their scientific investigations. With systems operating normally,
ISS is orbiting at an average altitude of 247 statute miles.

In a related story, the space shuttle Endeavour was repositioned on its
launching pad at Cape Canaveral ahead of the late November mission to
ISS.