2008: A Korean astronaut will fly to the ISS Station

Future Korean astronauts were allowed to practice at the Astronaut Training Center, "Star City" (Russia), after being given a health check. The spokesman of the Institute of Biomedical Research Research Mark Belakovski said this.

At the Astronaut Training Center, "Star City" (Russia)

Korea selected one male and one female out of 36,000 candidates for the flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

Go San, 31, works at Samsung Advanced Technology Institute. His replacement, Lee So-yeon, 29, is a student taking a doctorate in biological systems at the KAIST Institute of Science and Technology. In April 2008, one of them will enter space from a Soyuz spacecraft.

Chairman of the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) Anatoli Peminov and Chairman of the Korean Space Agency (KARI) Hong-Yul Paik signed an agreement on the flight of the first Korean astronaut to the ISS Station in January. Last 12/2006. This flight will be worth over $ 20 million but under $ 25 million.

The two countries signed a cooperative intergovernmental agreement on the exploration and use of space for peaceful purposes.

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