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SPACE CENTER, Houston: Two NASA astronauts have stepped out of space shuttle Atlantis and into history. Linda Godwin and Michael "Rich" Clifford are the first American astronauts to perform space walk outside of a Russian space station. This morning's walk outside of Mir was the first NASA spacewalk outside a space station since 1974. Godwin and Clifford attached cosmic dust catchers, paint samples and other materials to Mir. This is a stepping stone to building a mammoth international space station starting at the end of next year. The project is expected to be completed early next century...
...This will be the first time in three dockings that a NASA astronaut will stay on Mir. Shannon Lucid is supposed to stay on the station with two Russian cosmonauts for five months, marking the beginning of a continuous American presence in space into the next century. Lucid's stay would be the longest in space for any U.S. astronaut...
...high society (Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...
...Atlantis hurtled toward Mir today, a Canadian astronaut performed some high altitude construction to prepare for the docking. "Chris Hadfield pulled the five-ton docking module out of the payload bay of the shuttle and, with a fifty-foot crane, maneuvered it onto the top of the shuttle craft," says Hannifin. "All this at 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles above the earth. It's unprecedented in terms of pulling off a giant construction project in space...
...makers of Apollo 13 [CINEMA, July 3], but there were some errors in the review. The names given to the command and lunar modules of Apollo 13, Odyssey and Aquarius, were not, as the article implied, derived from the entertainment-industry products 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hair. Astronaut Jim Lovell's book clearly states the derivation of the names: Odyssey because Lovell "plain liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters to witness what happened 25 years ago. I hope most...