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Pausing from a Soyuz survival training session are two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut. Left to right are John E. Blaha, Vasili V. Tsibliyev and Shannon W. Lucid. Blaha will go into space on the scheduled August mission of STS-79 and after four months aboard Russia's Mir Space Station will return to Earth with the STS-81 crew. Lucid is to accompany the STS-76 crew in March and spend a little over four months aboard Mir before returning to Earth with the STS-79 crew. Tsibliyev is the Mir-23 commander.