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...years, the ungainly assortment of cylinders, panels, nodes and antennae known as the International Space Station had orbited the Earth in the cold of space waiting for a crew. On Thursday November 2, that crew arrived - two Russians and their American commander - aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule, ready to claim the high frontier for all mankind, and for all time...
...long journey, but we made it," said Bill Shepherd, the lone American aboard. He wasn't talking about the 33 orbits the Soyuz flew while chasing the space station through the heavens, but the years of planning, drafting, wrangling and false starts that had led to the opening of this $100 million monument to the dream of space colonization...
...space race. China moved closer to playing in the manned space flight game Sunday following a successful unmanned test flight of a spacecraft designed to carry passengers into Earth orbit. The Shenzhou, China's answer to the Apollo capsule, is based on the design of the Russian Soyuz, and the Russians are also helping to construct the life support system and to train the Chinese "taikonauts." China may be able to conduct a manned flight as early as next fall, and officials have even speculated about possibly sending someone to the moon within 10 years...
...that itinerary sounds a little dull, blame the Russians. Discovery's mission was six months late, thanks to persistent delays with Star City's Soyuz module, which will form the life-support center of the $60 billion station now slated for completion in 2005. NASA bigwigs have already offered mea culpas for giving Russia, which is in the throes of economic and political paralysis, such a vital job -- the completion of which is essential to maintaining the construction schedule. Live and learn. Until the Russians get back on schedule, NASA crews will have to content themselves with busy work -- like...
...When the Soyuz capsule bearing the ill-fated Mir crew hit the Kazakh steppe in mid-August, the landing "wasn't as soft as it could have been," engineer Alexander Lazutkin later recalled. The former gymnast has clearly mastered the art of Right Stuff understatement. In his spartan apartment on the edge of Moscow, Lazutkin speaks of Mir in the most sanguine tones. "The inquisition is over," he reports, "and so far, no fines...