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...past several months, the creaking Mir, built to last just five years but now in its 11th, has been beset by problems, including a loss of oxygen, a breakdown in its cooling system and even an onboard fire. But last week's accident was clearly the worst...
...astronomers from Cornell University determined that what the Defense Department's Clementine space probe showed as waves of frozen water is instead merely the rough surfaces of impact craters. If true, the news could mean a setback for space explorers hoping to use the ice to produce hydrogen and oxygen, the main components of rocket fuel. The team said its findings are more accurate than Clementine's, since the Arecibo Observatory has better resolution than the probe. But the existence of ice on the moon cannot be entirely ruled out, the team acknowledged, until scientists study the lunar surface...
...herself indicated in her own metaphor to outgoing Secretary Christopher: I hope my heels can fill your shoes. Madeline Albright has broken through the very thick glass ceiling of American foreign policy. Let's give her a chance to see what she can do with all that oxygen...
...relaxing one evening when an alarm rang in the astronomy module. Rushing to the little lab, he found a cosmonaut swatting at a blaze erupting from an air canister. Linenger and his crewmates hurried to help, but the feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
...broke out in late February, was not the station's finest hour--but it wasn't its worst, either. Lately, the 11-year-old ship has been falling apart at an alarming rate, and the cash-poor Russians have been unable to do much about it. In March, its oxygen system failed; soon after, its gyroscopes quit; and three weeks ago, an ongoing coolant leak caused temperatures to rise to an oven-like 88[degrees...