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Engineer Lazutkin and Tsibliyev, who returned to Earth last month, face fierce recriminations and quite possibly a stiff fine. Last week VALERY RYUMIN, the Russian head of the Mir shuttle program and the deputy head of Energiya, the firm that built Mir, blamed the cosmonauts for Mir's troubled summer. But within days other top Russian space officials came to their defense. Lazutkin says he's willing to abide by the conclusions of a joint U.S.-Russian investigation that will deliver its judgment later this month, but he remains convinced that Russia's earthly shortfalls contributed to Mir's difficulties...
...cargo ship and Mir's Spektr module, a panel of top Russian space officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
...While the duo now have someone to share the blame with, Ryumin still claims the cosmonauts alone caused the accident and that he has "irrefutable evidence" to prove it. Perhaps. But as deputy director of Energia, the company which built Mir, Ryumin has an interest in blaming the workmen rather than the tools...
...Soviet Union, the Berezovoy-Lebedev mission has sparked a rare public debate over one major question: How long can a person stay aloft before suffering irremediable harm? Cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin, who had set earlier flight records by orbiting the earth for 175 and 185 days, believes the safe limit has been breached. Says Ryumin, now a senior program chief at the Soviet space control center outside Moscow: "It appears to me that four months is the optimal period...
...trouble getting to sleep, and were often awakened by the spacecraft's clattering and creaking. Others complained of fatigue and vertigo. In a revealing new book, Red Star in Orbit (Random House; $12.95), James Oberg offers some trenchant quotes from the flight diary of Salyut Cosmonaut Valeri Ryumin, who in three trips spent just short of a year in space. Writes Ryumin of his shaky introduction to space travel: "Looking into the mirror I fail to recognize myself. I feel dizzy, nauseous. My movements lack coordination. I keep bumping into things, mostly with my head. Objects float away from...