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...bird was not a real bird, of course. It was a small plastic model that broke into song when its switch was thrown. Lately it had begun singing whenever it was jostled, and on this day it got jostled hard. Just moments before, the station's commander, Vasili Tsibliyev, had attempted to bring an unmanned cargo vessel in for a remote-control docking. When the ship was just a few yards from the station, it suddenly flew wide of the docking port, sideswiped one of the station's solar panels and slammed broadside into its Spektr science module. The collision...
...year-old ship had experienced a breakdown in its oxygen system, a series of leaks in its cooling system and an onboard fire. In the months following the collision, there were power blackouts, repeated failures in the ship's flickering computer and even an alarming irregularity in Tsibliyev's heartbeat...
...cargo-vessel accident that focused the world's attention on Mir--and on Foale. While Tsibliyev and his fellow Russian Alexander Lazutkin returned to Earth last August--having been relieved by two fresh cosmonauts--Foale did not get his ride home until a few weeks ago, when the shuttle Atlantis ferried up astronaut David Wolf to relieve...
Garry Trudeau intended to be humorous in his satiric look at the home life of Russian cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev and his wife [ESSAY, Sept. 1], but succeeded only in painting a very negative image of Tsibliyev as a bumbler. How easy it is for Trudeau to take the difficulties of the Mir space station and place them squarely on the shoulders of one person. Putting a space station thousands of miles above the earth is a great scientific achievement. Just because Tsibliyev is a Russian, he is ridiculed. Don't forget that Mir is the only manned space station...
Engineer Lazutkin and Tsibliyev, who returned to Earth last month, face fierce recriminations and quite possibly a stiff fine. Last week VALERY RYUMIN, the Russian head of the Mir shuttle program and the deputy head of Energiya, the firm that built Mir, blamed the cosmonauts for Mir's troubled summer. But within days other top Russian space officials came to their defense. Lazutkin says he's willing to abide by the conclusions of a joint U.S.-Russian investigation that will deliver its judgment later this month, but he remains convinced that Russia's earthly shortfalls contributed to Mir's difficulties...