Trouble in space: disasters haunt Russian space station.(Mir space station)(includes related information)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: October 3, 1997 | Copyright information

MOSCOW, Russia--Last Sunday (Sept. 28), 250 miles above Earth, where the blackness of space meets the brilliant blue and white of the globe below, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir (MEER). On board Atlantis was U.S. astronaut David Wolf. He was joining the crew of Mir, replacing another U.S. astronaut, Michael Foale, who had been on board the space station with two Russian cosmonauts since June.

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