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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Space Shuttle Atlantis departs for Mir Thursday night at 10:30, and David Wolf will be on it. NASA chief Daniel Goldin said that although the space agency was "deeply touched" by the public concern with the flight ? in particular, the cantankerous complaints of Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner ? "the decision to continue our joint participation aboard Mir should not be based on emotion or politics." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson explains: "NASA can't be seen giving in to congressional pressures, especially when international science is involved. It would make us an unreliable space partner...
...final decision rests with Daniel Goldin, head of NASA ? who is keeping everyone in suspense Wednesday by waiting on two final safety reports before making up his mind. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson bets he'll say yes. "Goldin has been under the gun before," says Thompson. "If he hasn't changed his criteria ? that it's reasonably safe and there's measurable benefit ? Wolf will go as planned." At the very least, Atlantis will drop off a replacement computer, patches for holes, and pick up Michael Foale after his hair-raising four-and-a-half-month stay. Will Wolf...
...tons of equipment hauled up for a risky orbital repair that his two Russian companions are slated to attempt later this week were replacements for his lost toothbrush, shaving kit and sneakers. Freshly groomed and shod, Foale was nothing if not upbeat when he talked to NASA boss Daniel Goldin, himself under heat for allowing Americans to continue working aboard the 11-year-old Mir. "The safety concerns, I think, are well met," said the 40-year-old British-born astrophysicist, "and I'm not worried...
...ready for the kind of zero-G science that astronauts have been doing aboard Mir in exchange for U.S. payments of $472 million to the cash-strapped Russian space agency. That will require an "external" space walk to plug Spektr's puncture. Nor will the pressure ease on Goldin, who is already being urged by Capitol Hill to call off further visits to Mir by Americans. Joining these voices last week was Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, also the beneficiary of a celebrated space rescue. "Mir has done an exceptionally fine job," he acknowledged. "Now it's time to give...
...everyone at NASA is convinced that Goldin's thrift-shop ships are up to the trips. "Faster and cheaper is not necessarily better," says Ray Newburn, a veteran astronomer with 41 years of experience working on J.P.L. missions. "It's nice to have some small missions where you don't have all your eggs in one basket. But you can't always be cheap about missions that go way out and have to last a decade or more...