Word: shipped
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Carpenter-McMillan says she's just encouraging Jones to follow her instincts, but that may not be prudent in such a pressure-cooker case. "Can a nonlawyer steer this vessel to port, or is Paula going to go down with the ship?" asks feminist attorney Gloria Allred. Carpenter-McMillan says she's looking for a new lawyer to take the case, "one that I feel really good with." And who might that lawyer be? Carpenter-McMillan denies that her husband William, a personal-injury attorney, will now take over. But then she chirps, "Wait till my husband demands pictures...
Before it could slow itself sufficiently to be captured by Mars' gravity, the ship had to pressurize its fuel lines and fire its retrorockets. The last time NASA tried to orbit Mars was in 1993, and that mission ended during pressurization when a fuel line hemorrhaged, sending the billion-dollar Mars Observer probe spinning into the void. Last Tuesday was Surveyor's turn to prime its lines, and despite some well-bitten nails in Mission Control, this time things went perfectly. "To see this event pass successfully is a great relief," said project manager Glenn Cunningham after the pressurization...
...close encounter wasn't quite as bad as June's supply-ship bust-up, but it did send Mir's three-man crew scurrying into their escape capsule, where they remained until the satellite shot overhead at a hasty 17,500 miles per hour. Russian space officials said the satellite came within 500 yards of plowing into the cosmonaut's front room...
MOSCOW: Maybe it's not all their fault. As the finger-pointing continues over June's collision between a 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...
Vasily pushed his wet, matted hair out of his eyes as the emergency vehicles pulled up in front of his apartment. "You know," he said bitterly, the rising smoke starting to sting his eyes, "we should have abandoned the station, but we never thought about jumping ship. Not once...