The Russian Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft is transported to its launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome. Photo: REUTERS

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) announced that a contract for the flight of a Korean astronaut to the Russian segment of the International Space Station in a Russian spacecraft Soyuz in the spring of 2008 would be signed in Moscow on Thursday.

Roskosmos’ chief Anatoly Perminov and KARI president Hong-Yul Pak will sign the document.

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