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...experiments and the American's sleeping quarters, forcing the crew to seal off that portion of the station. Damage to the solar panels cost Mir half its power, leading to a shipwide brownout, and the station itself was thrown into a sickening spin. At week's end Tsibliyev, fellow cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin and astronaut Mike Foale were reduced to pitching camp in the dimly lighted areas of the station that still work, as failing systems caused heat and humidity to soar and Mir itself to list and drift. "It's as critical as it can get," said astronaut Jerry Linenger...
...aboard the Russian space station Mir, Linenger was relaxing one evening when an alarm rang in the astronomy module. Rushing to the little lab, he found a cosmonaut swatting at a blaze erupting from an air canister. Linenger and his crewmates hurried to help, but the feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
Last week Linenger and cosmonaut Vasili Tsibliyev took a successful and widely publicized space walk outside the station. This week NASA plans to fly astronaut Mike Foale up to Mir, bringing to five the number of Americans who will have been Russia's orbital guests. Despite these successes, some in Washington are wondering whether it's safe for any American to set foot aboard the rickety ship. Even if Mir survives, others are asking, what does the sorry state of the craft say about Russia's ability to participate in future projects with the U.S.--particularly the long-planned international...
...note in a grueling mission that was to end this week when the shuttle Atlantis returns Lucid to Earth after six long months in space. The 53-year-old shuttle veteran will have amassed 223 days in orbit since 1985, making her America's most experienced astronaut. Besting Russian cosmonaut Elena Kondakova, Lucid will also have set the women's record for consecutive days in orbit (188), after hurricanes and technical glitches delayed shuttle flights that should have picked her up almost seven weeks earlier...
...fighter pilots would someday be on the same flight crew. Yet when the space shuttle Atlantis roared off the pad at Cape Canaveral last week in America's 100th manned launch, the two men, Robert ("Hoot") Gibson and Anatoli Solovyev, along with four other U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, were both on board. Their mission was a more ambitious reprise of the earlier Apollo-Soyuz flight: rendezvous and dock with the Russian space station Mir, orbiting 245 miles above the earth...