Posted
2/05/2004 09:18:00 PM
by Douglas
What exactly is psychological incompatibility?The crew lined up for the next flight to the international space station in April will be changed after cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and U.S. astronaut Leroy Chiao developed "a psychological incompatibility" during training, Russian space officials said Wednesday.
Chiao had been preparing with Tokarev at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow, but the two didn't hit it off, a Russian Aviation and Space Agency official said by telephone Tuesday.
Sounds like someone's not getting along. I guess low earth orbit isn't a good place to have it out with your coworker.