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“The South Korean government has named a female mechanical engineer as its first person to go to space after replacing its initial choice at the request of Russian space authorities.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said at a news conference Monday that Yi So-yeon will replace Ko San as the country’s choice to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station in early April
South Korea originally named Ko as its candidate in September, but Lee Sang-mok, a senior ministry official, said Russia’s Federal Space Agency asked for a replacement last month because Ko had violated regulations at a Russian space training center.” read more | digg story
The moral of the main story is like all astronauts Dr Yi So-yeon is incredibly smart, and even luckier than she is smart. While smart women are a big turn on for me, she is also physically hot. I would put her up there in the hotness category of my other two famed Korean Space goers Grace Park as BSG’s Boomer and Enterprises Hoshi Sato.
