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Both ships, the shuttle Atlantis and the space station Mir, had crews from both countries. Atlantis was ferrying a fresh pair of cosmonauts to Mir for the next two months; the Mir crew--two Russians and American Norman Thagard--looked forward to returning to Earth next week aboard the shuttle...
...easy task. As the two spacecraft hurtle toward theirscheduled 9 am docking over Central Asia tomorrow, pilot Hoot Gibson will have to contend with a much more difficult linking than in the Apollo-Soyuz maneuver. "The Apollo and Soyuz capsules approached each other straight on," notes Hannifin. "This time, Mir will be stationary while the shuttle comes from underneath. The inertia of two 100-ton objects traveling at 17,500 miles per hour leaves no room for error. This will definitely be the most exciting part of the mission. But Hoot Gibson is an excellent pilot, and should handle...
After 84 days aboard the Russian space station Mir-- and a bracing diet of canned Russian perch -- American astronaut Norman Thagard has broken the U.S. space endurance record set by three Skylab astronauts in 1974. Now, he's ready for the green hills of Earth. "I miss my family," said Thagard, who became the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed...
...wrenching transition, from space to spacey. The Today show devoted much of its program one morning to the successful rendezvous of the shuttle Discovery with the Russian space station Mir, including a live interview by co-hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric with the elated American crew aboard the orbiting Discovery...
BACK ON EARTH. VALERY POLYAKOV, 52, physician and cosmonaut; after a recordsetting 437 days and 18 hours in space on board the Russian Mir space station; in Kazakhstan. During his 14-1/2 months in orbit, Polyakov circled the earth about 7,000 times, covering a distance of 250 million miles...