Soyuz TM-23 crew is replaced with backups

The two Russian members of the upcoming Russian-French mission to the Mir space station have been replaced at the last moment after the Russian commander failed a medical test. Colonel Gennadiy Manakov was barred from the mission after physicians detected a cardiac insufficiency during a routine...

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