Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rides aboard Mir to the U.S., as well as a blow to the Kremlin's prestige. So far, though, NASA has no such plan. And for the moment, the Russians have more immediate concerns. Last month's crash poked a hole in the station's Spektr module, forcing the crew to disconnect power cables so they could isolate the now airless Spektr from the rest...
Without Spektr's solar panels, the space station has been limping along at half power--a situation that, if unremedied, would make it impossible to keep Mir operating as a research station. Rather than abandon Mir, the Russians worked out a way the crew could fix it: Tsibliyev and fellow cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin would put on space suits and take an "internal eva"--an indoor space walk--to reattach the cables. The power lines would then be passed through a replacement hatch that was sent up aboard a supply rocket earlier this month...
...have emergency gallbladder surgery. Then, she faced a host of technical problems, from malfunctioning props to elaborate scene changes that couldn't be made quickly enough. For the first few preview performances, the show was forced to insert a pause just before the big wildebeest stampede to give the crew time to change the set. (Taymor has since inserted a new scene to bridge...
...another Progress on June 25, Mir's Spektr science module suffered a foot-long tear in one of its sail-like solar panels and an inch-wide breach in its hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed off Spektr, site of Foale's racks of experiments and his living quarters--disconnecting the cables from solar panels that provide nearly 40% of Mir's power. To ration electricity, the crew shut off Mir's stabilizing gyrodynes for several days and kept the ship from spinning...
...operation, but instead has been instructed to camp inside the Soyuz escape capsule until a space shuttle mission picks him up in September. Having survived emergencies ranging from flash fires and a collision to being set adrift in space with last week's power failure, the two frazzled Russian crew members are looking forward to landing on Earth by August...