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...bets, please: will NASA Astronaut David Wolf fly aboard the Shuttle Atlantis Thursday on a Mir-bound mission? Not if Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has his way. The House Science Committee chairman has been against sending any more boys up that way since June's collision between the Spektr module and a cargo ship, and wants to protect Wolf from becoming "an assistant Mr. Fix-It" aboard the embattled Russian station. That Wolf himself is quite keen to go appears to be beside the point...
...least it wasn't for nothing: before closing the hatch again at 3 a.m. EDT, the pair manually realigned two solar panels on the Spektr module, which should boost their power supply to about 90 percent. Another spacewalk is tentatively planned for next month. TIME Daliy's Mir coverage
...nearly six hours Michael Foale and Anatoly Solovyov walked in space, peering and poking at the shell of the airless Spektr module, looking for holes to plug. They found none. "To our great regret, we have found nothing which could be interpreted as a puncture," said Vladimir Solovyov, chief of Mission Control in Moscow. Though plenty of damage was visible, the ruptures themselves were not apparent...
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...
...such squabbling will probably be put aside. With Mir stabilized, the crew is looking ahead to its next space walk--this one outside the ship to find and patch the elusive holes in Spektr's skin. NASA has agreed to allow Foale to train for that orbital excursion, though just when it will take place and whether he'll actually participate is still undecided. NASA officials firmly state, however, that as long as Mir stays sound, they will proceed with plans to send astronaut David Wolf up to relieve Foale in late September. Ghost ship or not, Mir will apparently...