Cosmonauts install 'meteor trap' on Mir in six-hour spacewalk
Mir Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Avdeyev installed a French-built "meteor trap" outside the station late Tuesday in a five-hour, 54-minute spacewalk that took the spacesuited pair all over the aging orbital facility. Scientists hope the device will contain remnants of the Comet Tempel...
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