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"At about 1:15 am (EST) Wednesday they will begin an extremely complicated ballet in space as they approach the Mir," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin of the planned rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over...
As a result of the pressure to make space cooperation work, the Atlantis-Mir docking is not simply a one-shot space show but a calculated step in a series of missions that will take advantage of both programs' strengths. The goal: construction of a permanently manned international space station...
It is not the first step either; that was taken in February when the space shuttle Discovery tested its maneuverability by approaching to within 37 ft. of Mir. In March U.S. astronaut Dr. Norman Thagard, fresh from two months of training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, zoomed into space...
But there was a lot to do before that could happen. Once the handshakes and photo opportunities were done, the 10 space travelers had to transfer food and water, which Atlantis had brought to replenish Mir's dwindling supplies. The astronauts and cosmonauts also had a full schedule of experiments...
The discovery of the sophisticated cave paintings in the south of France and the announcement that they are the oldest ever found should indeed throw "the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question," as suggested by a French official [SCIENCE, June 19]. Anthropology will remain in the kindergarten of...