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...Numbers 16 candidates on a new Russian TV show will have a shot at winning a trip to space. The winner must pass cosmonaut medical tests and endure Survivor-style competitions for the chance at a week in orbit 75% is the rise in women over 65 who drink heavily compared with a decade ago, according to a new British study 130 million cell phones will be discarded each year by 2005, according to a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 140 new tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests...
...only way to stop Tito was to bar the hatch if he showed up--triggering an international diplomatic incident--or to convince Russia that the investment tycoon was unqualified for space flight. NASA tried the latter, but it was tough given Tito's background. He may not be a cosmonaut, but he is an actual rocket scientist who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before becoming a successful businessman. (He founded the investment firm Wilshire Associates.) He also completed some 900 hours of training in Star City, the cosmonauts' boot camp, and was deemed flightworthy by Russia's space...
Some observers suspect that the agency's formal objections were only part of the story. "The problem is ego over who controls the International Space Station," says Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, the commercial space-tourism agency that brokered Tito's flight. Some Russians agree. Said former cosmonaut Georgi Grechko in a TV interview before NASA yielded: "We have a new station, and the Americans are showing us who the boss...
Marx may have nixed Christmas, but he said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked...
...went by and the station aged, crews no longer had the luxury of such pranks. The world remembers Mir for its hair-raising string of crises in the late 1990s--culminating in a collision with an unmanned cargo ship in 1997--but there were other, less publicized near misses. Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov almost became a satellite himself when his safety tether came loose during a spacewalk. Luckily, he managed to grab hold of the station. In 1994, Mir lost its orientation, causing most of its onboard systems to sputter out, including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive...