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Astronaut David Wolf is anxiously waiting to find out if he'll be going to Mir tomorrow (TIME Daily...
...countdown begins for a U.S. space shuttle mission to Mir (Reuters...
...intended to be humorous in his satiric look at the home life of Russian cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev and his wife [ESSAY, Sept. 1], but succeeded only in painting a very negative image of Tsibliyev as a bumbler. How easy it is for Trudeau to take the difficulties of the Mir space station and place them squarely on the shoulders of one person. Putting a space station thousands of miles above the earth is a great scientific achievement. Just because Tsibliyev is a Russian, he is ridiculed. Don't forget that Mir is the only manned space station to remain...
Malfunctions and mishaps have plagued MIR of late, but its 1986 launch caused U.S. space experts to think America had been "Sputniked" again. An Oct. 5, 1987, cover story in TIME explored the Soviet domination in space...
...Mir faces yet another technical hitch ? a mysterious brown cloud in space (TIME Daily...