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...video e-mail has yet to take off. "The packages all work pretty much the same," sighs Forrester's Mark Hardie, who has tried them all and is underwhelmed. While the quality of video e-mail resembles the herky-jerky style of communications with the Mir space station, a bigger problem is download time. Even compressed files tend to impose unbearably long waits for people stuck at the end of standard modems. Hint to video e-mailers: use the low-quality resolution, which creates smaller files. Hint to everyone else: most e-mail programs let you reject messages larger than...
...Mir, Russia's overworked and under-financed space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending...
...MOSCOW: Mir, Russia's overworked and underfinanced space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending...
...time for Discovery to head home, and every nook and cranny of the shuttle is stuffed with souvenirs of its last hook-up with Mir. Astronaut Andrew Thomas -- who spent 130 days on the Russian station and brought back a bundle of posters, certificates and even a guitar -- seems to have the perennial tourist's problem of packing in zero gravity: "We've got stuff floating everywhere," he said after rejoining his colleagues Thursday...
...successful navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...