Word: wolfed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without gray screens and frosted-flake voices. And while the G-men were singing like canaries, the senators were having a, er, whale of a time overturning some other sacred cows, like the FDA and the McCain-Feingold bill. The House had some trouble keeping NASA in check ? David Wolf, that dirty rat that actually wanted to go to the Mir, slipped through Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner's fingers like a stratospheric salmon...
...NASA gives astronaut David Wolf the green light to replace Michael Foale on board Mir (TIME Daily...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: Space Shuttle Atlantis departs for Mir Thursday night at 10:30, and David Wolf will be on it. NASA chief Daniel Goldin said that although the space agency was "deeply touched" by the public concern with the flight ? in particular, the cantankerous complaints of Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner ? "the decision to continue our joint participation aboard Mir should not be based on emotion or politics." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson explains: "NASA can't be seen giving in to congressional pressures, especially when international science is involved. It would make us an unreliable space partner...
...Goldin and to Wolf, Mir seems safe enough; and with the International Space Station already in incubation, the show, as they say, must...
...Wednesday by waiting on two final safety reports before making up his mind. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson bets he'll say yes. "Goldin has been under the gun before," says Thompson. "If he hasn't changed his criteria ? that it's reasonably safe and there's measurable benefit ? Wolf will go as planned." At the very least, Atlantis will drop off a replacement computer, patches for holes, and pick up Michael Foale after his hair-raising four-and-a-half-month stay. Will Wolf replace him, or will Mir be Yankee-free? Tune in Thursday to find...