Word: thagard
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...Norman Thagard, the only other American to live aboard Mir, spent 115 days on the station last year, losing 17 lbs. and complaining afterward of the "cultural isolation" he felt while aloft. Lucid found that she was sometimes treated like a second-class passenger. Her crewmates occasionally left Mir to conduct maintenance outside. When they did, they placed red tape over the communications panel, a blunt sign to their guest that she was not to fool with a system they assumed she did not understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian...
Captain Kirk never seemed to mind outer space. But before NORMAN THAGARD, left, with cosmonauts, returned from 115 days in orbit on Russia's Mir space station, he had some things he wanted to get off his chest. First, the food was only so-so (tinned perch was a staple). Then there was the lack of news from home. "The cultural isolation is extreme," griped Thagard, who referred to himself as a "lab rat." NASA officials said they have begun to look into the psychological effects of long-term missions in space, where people can indeed hear you complain...
...first step either; that was taken in February when the space shuttle Discovery tested its maneuverability by approaching to within 37 ft. of Mir. In March U.S. astronaut Dr. Norman Thagard, fresh from two months of training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, zoomed into space aboard a Soyuz capsule to begin a three-month stay on Mir--a record sojourn for an American, though nearly a year short of the Russian record. The current mission is, among other things, a ticket home for Thagard and his two Russian companions on Mir; in exchange, Solovyev and Budarin will stay...
...were done, the 10 space travelers had to transfer food and water, which Atlantis had brought to replenish Mir's dwindling supplies. The astronauts and cosmonauts also had a full schedule of experiments that would occupy them for the next five days. Many of them involve medical tests on Thagard and the Mir crew to analyze the effects of long-term space flight on their bodies...
...final day of their joint mission aboard the Mir space stationin a celebratory mood. Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could have brought his wife along. When the two giant spacecraft undock on Tuesday, two of the MIR cosmonauts will film the maneuver...