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...they approach the Mir," says TIME aerospace correspondent Jerry Hannifin of the planned rendezvous between the shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station. "We've never done anything quite like this. Flying over Russia and in range of a Russian control station, the Atlantis crew will maneuver the 100-ton shuttlecraft, with this big docking tunnel sticking 15 feet out of its payload bin, very slowly -- at the rate of an inch per second -- through a forest of antenna and solar arrays. It looks like a big mechanical porcupine with five to ten inches of clearance. The Atlantis crew will...
...Atlantis hurtled toward Mir today, a Canadian astronaut performed some high altitude construction to prepare for the docking. "Chris Hadfield pulled the five-ton docking module out of the payload bay of the shuttle and, with a fifty-foot crane, maneuvered it onto the top of the shuttle craft," says Hannifin. "All this at 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles above the earth. It's unprecedented in terms of pulling off a giant construction project in space...
Coach Tim Wheaton deserves a ton of credit for finding so many star players in the last few years. He has built a solid foundation for the team, which this year consisted of only three seniors and three juniors in addition to a multitude of talented sophomores and freshmen...
...ton of opportunities," Wilmot said. "In the first half we were outplayed but in the second half we just weren't finishing things. In the second half we were in complete control...
Carver sat astride the 22-ton machine, his dust-caked face streaked with the paths of recent tears. He remembers being frightened and tense as he guided the Cat toward an armed U.S. Forest Service agent holding a hand-lettered sign ordering Carver to stop. The agent stumbled and wound up briefly crawling on hands and knees. But Carver kept coming. He pulled out a pocket-size copy of the U.S. Constitution, which he keeps with him always, and waved it defiantly at the agent as a crowd of about 200 people, a quarter of them armed, cheered him forward...