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Female cosmonaut joins U S mission in space flight row
Elena Kondakova will fly on Atlantis to Mir substitute Michael Foale, despite her husband's view that women should stay home. The debate over women in space surfaces publicly, with Kondakova and other officials defending the role of women astronauts.
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