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Science Sunita gets an early flight back from space station | Sunita gets an early flight back from space station |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 27 April 2007 | |
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Hail damage to Atlantis' external fuel tank delayed STS-117, and this had a knock-on effect postponing STS-118 until August. STS-117 is now scheduled for launch on June 8. Williams is set to break the women's spaceflight record of 188 days, held by Shannon Lucid since 1996. An August return would have allowed her to break the 215-day US record set last week by crewmate Mike Lopez-Alegria. The outright record of 437 days is held by Russian cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov. Williams will be replaced by Clay Anderson.{moscomment}
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