Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repairmen ever had so much riding on a service call as the two cosmonauts dispatched last week to fix Russia's crippled Mir space station. Commander Anatoli Solovyev, 49, and engineer Pavel Vinogradov, 43, must not only restore the station as a working orbital laboratory but also reassure their U.S. partners that Mir is safe enough to let Americans continue visiting...
Still, the new cosmonauts were nothing if not confident. Their first tasks are to boost the station's electric power and reopen Mir's damaged Spektr module, site of U.S. astronaut Michael Foale's experiments. Ever since an errant Progress supply capsule slammed into it in June, Spektr has been completely sealed off and the cables to its solar panels severed, cutting Mir's electric power in half...
...board Mir, to breathe is a blessing and to drink water is a luxury. We all know about the oxygen candles they've had to light for the last week, but now even the good old H2O on the battered Russian space station is drying up. No more than two-months' worth is left; perhaps as little as six weeks remains. But NASA is riding to the rescue: the Shuttle will ride up there in September, filled to the brim with aquatic sustenance. It may not be Evian, but the Russians should be grateful. Who knows, by then they might...
Maybe they don't have a size 2 in Russia. Astronaut Wendy Lawrence, who was to be the next American to live on Mir, the Russian space station, won't be going because, at 5 ft. 3 in., she's too short to fit into the Russian space suits. Her place will be taken by David Wolf, who's 5 ft. 10 in.--tailor-made for the bulky suits in case he's called upon to take a walk outside...
...wasn't that frightened until they threatened to flip our car over," says Kathleen Shuey. She and her husband George were trying to get on the Bay Bridge when their Volvo station wagon was surrounded for no apparent reason by "maybe a hundred" cyclists, one of whom scratched the side of the car. "That's when I got out and ran after him, and I almost grabbed him," says George. "Where does this stop?" Ironically, the Shueys support alternative transportation, but none of the cyclists bothered to ask. George, a Vietnam vet, and his wife, a recovering cancer patient...