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[i]The open selection drive was launched on January 27 and runs until March 15. Of the current applicants, 27 work in the space industry, traditionally the main source of cosmonauts, Krikalev said. But the list also includes applicants from other professions, including an airline pilot and three army officers, he said. There are also seven women among the applicants, said Sergei Krikalev, head of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Not all applicants were serious. One applied because he lived close to the cosmonaut training center and wanted to save time on commuting, while another sought to leave documents on his mental health out of his paperwork, Vitaly Davydov, deputy chief of the Federal Space Agency, said. Recruiters expect more applications to flow in because contenders need to provide a handful of medical and other documents, the collecting of which takes time, said Krikalev, a cosmonaut who holds the world record for combined time spent in orbit with 803 days in six flights.[/i]
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