South Korea Replaces Would-Be Astronaut
March 10th, 2008 By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer
South Korean Yi So-yeon poses in Seoul in this undated photo. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said at a news conference Monday, March 10, 2008 that Yi will replace Ko San as the country's choice to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station in early April. (AP Photo/ Yonhap)
(AP) -- An artificial intelligence expert lost the chance to be South Korea's first citizen in space after reading and removing manuals from Russia's cosmonaut training center without authorization, the government said Monday.
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zevkirsh - Mar 10, 2008
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what a dumb ass......years of training and instruction tossed away because he couldn't stay away from those books. i bet this guy regrets this for the rest of his life.- flag
