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...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...
That made the situation aboard Mir unsettling, to say the least. Cosmonauts Malenchenko, Valeri Poliakov and Talgat Musabayev have been subsisting on supplies left over from earlier missions, including food two years past its expiration date. They've had to drink water recycled from their breath and sweat...
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