Atlantis set for June 23 launch after postponement of Mir EVA.
NASA managers set a June 23 launch date for the Space Shuttle Atlantis on its first mission to dock with Russia's Mir space station after controllers in Moscow decided that two stuck solar arrays on Mir don't need to be fixed until after Atlantis returns to Earth. The seven-minute launch window for...
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