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...half years, with persistent theft of gold-plated electronic parts from space rockets and satellites. Now, say recent U.S. visitors to Baikonur, there are pilferers in the pantry. Cosmonauts complain that thieves have raided the supply of specialty foods prepared for their comrades on the orbiting Mir space station. Canned meats, bread, oranges and borscht have mysteriously -- but, in this land of privation, not surprisingly -- vanished from the rocket manifests...
...Russia, spurred on by President Clinton, have finally done what the experts have urged for years: agreed to massive cooperation in space. The Russians will be permitted to launch U.S. satellites; the U.S. will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put experiments aboard the Russian space station Mir, where they will be tended by American astronauts; and the U.S. will bring Russia on as a full partner in its own space-station effort...
...once imagination-grabbing American space program. As it turns out, that idea was too good to be true. The new space station approved by Clinton and the Congress last month bears little evidence of that utopian dream. So far there is no mention of hooking up with the Russian Mir space station or of Mir 2, due in 1996. No mention of using the huge Russian Energia rocket to save billions in launch costs. If anything, the plans underscore once again the uselessness of the space station and NASA's desperation to have something, anything...
...could buy some time on the Soviet-made Mir space station, a relic of the once-flourishing program in the USSR. Unmanned probes appear to be the cheaper, better way to go for scientific data-collecting. In any case, we will always have plenty of time to absorb the budgetary blow. That is, until the sun explodes...
...risking the lives of astronauts, to get the necessary construction materials into space. Using the Russians' unmanned Energia booster, the most powerful rocket in the world, could reduce the number of launches and greatly decrease the risk. The Russians are already fabricating parts for their next space station, Mir-2. The new station could be used as a model for Freedom, or the two could be combined into one large unit...