Word: mir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months the battered Mir space station has been as much a ghost ship as a spaceship. Even as its crews have continued to live and work in four of its aging modules, its fifth--the once glittering Spektr lab--has remained dark and cold, ruptured by a collision with a cargo ship in June...
...highest fuel prices of the summer are creating Labor Day gas pains for holiday commuters (Reuters) ... Muslim rebels have slaughtered 98 people, mostly women and children, in Algeria (TIME Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor...
MOSCOW: The average Boris isn't paying much attention to the crisis-ridden and occasionally oxygen-starved Mir. Why? "Most question why we are wasting hundreds of millions of dollars when there are so many other more pressing matters on Earth," reports TIME's Andrew Meier. Most Muscovites would rather see the money go toward state wages and pensions, unpaid in Russia for as long as five months in some cases...
...rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a brief panic at NASA early this morning...
MOSCOW: Desperate to show that Russia stands behind the wobbly Mir, the Kremlin has at last hit on a sure-fire PR coup: They're blasting Boris Yeltsin's trusty military advisor into space. Yuri Baturin, secretary of the Defense Council and high-profile cheerleader for the country's troubled space program, will make the trip to Mir some time next year for a stay of unspecified duration. And, by all accounts, he's raring to go. The physically fit, 48-year-old Baturin has already performed a few "aerobatic maneuvers" on a supersonic SU-30 fighter and has undergone...