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...NASA gives astronaut David Wolf the green light to replace Michael Foale on board Mir (TIME Daily...
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...
...Goldin and to Wolf, Mir seems safe enough; and with the International Space Station already in incubation, the show, as they say, must...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Place your bets, please: will NASA Astronaut David Wolf fly aboard the Shuttle Atlantis Thursday on a Mir-bound mission? Not if Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has his way. The House Science Committee chairman has been against sending any more boys up that way since June's collision between the Spektr module and a cargo ship, and wants to protect Wolf from becoming "an assistant Mr. Fix-It" aboard the embattled Russian station. That Wolf himself is quite keen to go appears to be beside the point...
...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 replace him, or will Mir be Yankee-free? Tune in Thursday to find...