Word: crews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual count was almost certainly higher. The names of as many as 1,000 children may not have been included on the ferry's manifest. Passengers who purchased tickets after boarding also may not have been listed in the roster. Some survivors claimed to have overheard members of the crew say there were more than 3,000 people on board...
When the Mir orbiter was launched in February 1986, Soviet officials announced that it would eventually become the first permanently manned space station. Last week the Soviets moved a big step closer to that milestone. As part of the first complete crew change aboard the spacelab, three cosmonauts docked their Soyuz TM-4 craft with Mir, which had been occupied by a team of two since March...
...crew is scheduled to return to earth New Year's Eve along with last week's third space traveler, a scientist on a short-term mission. By then Commander Yuri Romanenko will have spent 328 consecutive days in space, shattering the Soviet record of 237 days and leaving the U.S. record of 84 days in the cosmic dust...
This job is all nails and glue. Israel and his seven-man crew will remove all the doors and windows, complete with jambs and frames, from the spacious room, as well as the thick sheets of mahogany paneling on the walls. They use specially designed tools to do so. "Nobody makes tools to go backward in construction," says Israel. "We have to make our own pry bars and nail cutters to get behind paneling and under plumbing fixtures...
...sense of destiny and the Strolling Strings soften the crusts of Gorbachev and his crew of Soviets who mingled below the portrait of Abraham Lincoln? At the end, when Pianist Van Cliburn played Moscow Nights, Strauss thought he saw a bit of mist in the eyes of the Gorbachevs as they sang along. It was surely the most startling music in the East Room since Harry Truman played The Black Hawk Waltz...