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...economic boom of its own, China appears eager to muscle into that vacuum. Its recent moves to garrison disputed islands in the South China Sea have even led to arguments by top Vietnamese officials that the U.S. uphold the regional balance of power by bringing Vietnam back into its orbit of influence...
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...
...massive explosion on Mars millions of years ago blasted into orbit rocks that have landed on Earth during recent decades, University of California at San Diego chemist Kurt Marti said today. Marti claims that he has confirmed that a 40-pound meteorite that landed in Nigeria in 1962 was a piece of the distant planet. He explained that gas bubbles trapped inside the meteorite were matched with the atmosphere that the U.S. Viking spacecraft found on Mars in 1976. Marti said further testing showed that the meteorite was wandering in space for about three million years before it landed...
...astronaut became the first American to take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space flight on the human body. Thagard is scheduled to stay aboard Mir for three months, which will be the longest time an American has spent in orbit, but that won't impress Valery Polyakov; the Lou Gehrig of cosmonauts will finally get to leave Mir and return to earth this week after a record-breaking 440 days in space...
...space industry's version of the Super Bowl. Between 1997 and 2002, the Russians and the Americans, with help from the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan, intend to build an international space station, the $40 billion Alpha. The elaborate station is to be assembled in orbit, and the purpose of the joint shuttle-Mir missions is to develop techniques that will enable spacewalkers to become a construction crew. Said Thagard: "Mir is a test bed, a proving ground, a place for us to work out all the bugs and kinks...