ATTITUDE CONTROL

Russia's creaky Mir space station is back on track after giving its three-man crew and ground controllers in Moscow several bad moments last week when its attitude control system failed. The crew had to burn about 10 kilograms of fuel to stabilize the orbiting laboratory when the onboard computer...

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