The return home is not a smooth transition from weightlessness to 1-g for astronauts that return home via the Soyuz capsule.

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Among those who won't be attending is French President Jacques Chirac, who was in Georgia for the G-8 summit but opted to return to Paris.

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Mitchell, however, together with Russ-Walls and her husband, Richard Walls, did file a tax return for A.G. without his permission.

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