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...cavalry has arrived, but they're much less use than we thought. The two-man rescue team of Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov finally docked with Mir this afternoon. It turns out, however, that they can't do anything to fix the crippled space station's oxygen generators...
...Apparently they weren't carrying the required equipment: a special air supply pipe, which will arrive only in the fall. Until then, Mir's crew will have to keep lighting oxygen candles in order to breathe. In the meantime, they'll be able to console themselves with the one thing the cosmonauts did bring: souvenirs for everyone...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: The space-age version of knights in shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: The space-age version of knights in shining armor blasted off to the rescue of Mir today. Commander Anatoly Solovyov and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov are racing to the troubled space station to perform vital repairs ? and they were never more needed. True to form, Mir's oxygen generators broke down this morning. TIME's Dick Thompson says this latest mishap is no cause for alarm: "To the Russians, this is just life as normal," he says. The two cosmonauts are expected to dock Thursday...
...family, is often more effective than the corny dialogue. And in the air-fight scene, with the terrorists' planes closing in on AF1, a fighter's cold and determined eyes are eerily lit by green light while the rest of his face is covered by his helmet and oxygen mask...