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...town itself was incredibly. The ocean was visible from every corner. People strolled next to the sea to get to downtown Cozumel, which consists of a dock, restaurants, gift shops--and more restaurants and gift shops...
...steering thrusters failed; one of the thrusters is leaking and may compromise the crew's ability to steer the shuttle at close range to the station. The eight-day mission is a rehearsal for a June mission during which the shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to become the first to dock at Mir. At Discovery's controls on this mission: Captain Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot a U.S. spacecraft. Nineteen-year veteran Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Titov is also aboard. On a Soviet flight in 1983, he survived an explosion shortly after launch by catapaulting to the ground...
...America's Cup (as it was called from then on) has overflowed with machismo. It was not just the Vanderbilts, the Liptons, the Ted Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese marshal their mighty corporate establishment; the best of Boeing, Lockheed, M.I.T. and General Motors would jump to attention with aerodynamicists...
...year ago today, the USS Harlan County, filled with American and Canadian troops, was not allowed to dock in Port au Prince, turned back by a group of Haitian thugs. President Clinton's Haiti policy was widely ridiculed and lay in tatters around...
...space program -- and the well-being of three cosmonauts -- was in jeopardy as a planned rendezvous in orbit went suddenly awry. A Progress rocket laden with food and other vital supplies glided up to -- and right past -- the Mir space station. Ground controllers then made a second effort to dock the two craft, but failed. By late Friday afternoon, the Progress could make only one last pass; this time cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko would try to maneuver Mir into a favorable position. Finally, with no more room for error, Malenchenko hit his target and the ships linked...