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ISS crew to kick-off Eurovision final voting
14 May, 2009, 16:04
The official start to voting for the best act at the Eurovision Song Contest
2009 will be given by the crew of the International Space Station, the Russian
Space Agency reports on Thursday.
Eurovision 2009 hosts will speak to the ISS crew during the final on May 16, and
some mass media outlets have already reported that the song contest winner might
be announced from space.
"According to the scenario of the final of Eurovision, the ISS crew will address
the participants and spectators of the competition, and then will start the
beginning of the voting," says the press-secretary of the Russian Space Agency
Aleksandr Vorobyov.
The ISS crew now includes the Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, NASA astronaut
Michael Barratt and astronaut from Japan Koiti Vakata.
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