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...astronauts away from a failing space station. Later this year Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who was stranded in space for months by political maneuverings during the Soviet Union's breakup, will fly on a U.S. shuttle. In 1995 an American astronaut will be a guest aboard Russia's Mir space station. And in the same year, a shuttle will hook up with Mir, possibly to retrieve the American astronaut, using a Russian docking adapter...
...AUDACIOUS CRIME. ON JAN. 25, SOMEONE shot and killed two Central Intelligence Agency employees literally at the gate of the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Who was the shooter? What was the motive? A breakthrough occurred when the roommate of 28-year-old Mir Aimal Kansi reported him missing. Kansi's Reston, Virginia, apartment was searched, a Chinese-made AK-47 was found, and FBI firearms experts concluded that it was the gun that fired cartridge casings recovered at the crime scene. Kansi was charged with capital murder and placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Police...
...least for proteins, are all that reliable. Reviewing a decade's worth of such space efforts, scientists writing in Nature found that less than a quarter of the experiments actually worked, and then with only mixed success. Their recommendation: rent time aboard the already orbiting Russian space station Mir...
...RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS use when they return to earth. The instructions continue: "Take the key. Put into the hole. Turn. Open the hatch." Who knows? One of these days, a farmer in Nebraska or North Dakota might be following those directions. Should the two cosmonauts now orbiting in Russia's Mir space station need to make an emergency landing outside designated areas in the former Soviet Union, the Russians have told the U.S. State Department their destination of choice would be America's northern heartland. Washington has agreed to help. The Russians' only request: Please turn off the high-tension power...
...that will require money, which will be hard to squeeze from the anemic Russian budget. Clearly, foreign capital is needed. For several years Moscow has been raising funds by selling visits to Mir, at $10 million to $15 million a pop, to countries such as Japan and England. Several nations, including India, have paid to launch satellites on Russian rockets. Now virtually every branch of the space infrastructure, once financed by the Soviet military, has trade representatives...