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...rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over Russia and in range of a Russian control station, the Atlantis crew will maneuver the 100-ton shuttlecraft, with this big docking tunnel sticking 15 feet out of its payload bin, very slowly -- at the rate of an inch per second -- through a forest of antenna and solar arrays. It looks like a big mechanical porcupine with five to ten inches of clearance. The Atlantis crew will ram it into the docking port on the Mir. A huge metallic kiss...
...even the Perseus has its limitations. "Flights will have to be pretty short -- about one hour at 80,000 feet [24 kilometers]," Langford says. "Perseus will only be able to carry a single instrument, while Thesarus will be able to carry up to 700 pounds of payload...
...goods was being shipped, however, the picture changed again. Officials at the Defense Technology Security Administration learned about the deal after they read a wire between the U.S. embassy in Beijing and the State Department. Fearing that China intended to use the Garrett engine to extend the range and payload capacity of its Silkworm missile, the agency raised furious objections...
...Emily Morey-Holton, payload scientist atNASA's Ames Research Center in California,oversees all three science projects on Endeavour.The experiments on this mission are "the firstpeer-reviewed cell cultures by NIH that haveflown...
...veteran spacewalkers. Thornton, a nuclear physicist and mother of five, went on the 1992 mission that repaired the Intelsat communications satellite. On that flight, the 5-ft. 4-in. K.T., as the other astronauts call her, wasn't involved in wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will be housed in a 600-lb. box the size of a telephone booth, but in the weightlessness of space, Thornton should be able...