Cosmonauts install solar array on Mir; hatch seal uncertain

Mir Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov installed a new solar array outside the Russian orbital station yesterday, but moisture- related problems on the hatch they used as an exit for their spacewalk left in doubt whether it was properly sealed against vacuum. In an extravehicular...

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