Russia Merging Cosmonauts Into Single Team at Gagarin

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Russia's three separate teams of cosmonauts will be merged into one before the end of 2010, according to officials at the Russian Federal Space Agency's Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, home of one of the teams.rnRussia currently has 35 cosmonauts and three cosmonaut candidates divided among three teams: one at the Gagarin center, the second at space hardware builder RSC Energia, and the third at the Institute of the Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.rnSergei Krikalev, the cosmonaut who runs the Gagarin Center, said Nov. 23rnthat the three teams will be consolidated into one at Gagarin.