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...Foale and Lazutkin too, the day would be a busy one. Bringing Progress in for a dead-reckoning docking would take the cooperation of all three crewmen. Tsibliyev would be at the helm in the core module, watching the monitor and operating the joysticks as the vessel approached. Lazutkin would be behind him, peering out a nearby window to call out the spacecraft's coordinates. Foale would be dispatched to the station's most distant module, the Kvant, where the unmanned ship would actually dock. Shining a laser range finder out the stern porthole, he would measure Progress's distance...
...familiar problems for the pratfall-prone station. Four days before, the onboard computer failed--again. Shortly after, there was a touch-and-go moment as a cargo ship approached the station--again. Amid all this, the inevitable finger-pointing began. Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that recently returned crewmen Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin were largely responsible for the station's woes; at his postflight press conference, an indignant Tsibliyev denied the charge...
With the cables in place, Solovyev joined Vinogradov inside the lab, and the crewmen began their next chore, looking for breaches in Spektr's skin caused by the collision. The cosmonauts had originally been ordered not to turn the place upside down hunting for holes but rather just to scan for what NASA called blue sky showing through the walls. With the work going so well, however, controllers approved a more thorough search, and Vinogradov and Solovyev went so far as to disassemble Foale's stationary bicycle in order to create maneuvering room. "Michael," Solovyev joshed, "your riding days...
...grew up then," he continued. He felt devastated that his crewmen had been lost, White apparently killed in the plane, Delaney when his chute did not open. In truth there was nothing more Bush could have done. Yet he has wondered for years. War is like that. It is one of the oddities of his climb to the presidency that this story was almost unknown until he ran for the White House...
...never really dwelled on making another jump," Bush said. "But it was always a thought back in my mind: Do it again and do it right." He doesn't say it, but maybe it was to be a last salute to his crewmen. He did not do anything about it until this February, when he gave a speech to the U.S. Parachute Association in Houston. His listeners stood and roared an ovation for one who had been there. In the presence of young adventurers, in and out of the military, Bush always gets an adrenaline rush, and right there...