Mir cosmonauts discard attitude control engine in spacewalk
Cosmonauts aboard Russia's Mir orbital station removed a six-year-old attitude-control engine that had run out of fuel and threw it "over the side" on Saturday, clearing the way for installation of a new engine in spacewalks coming up later this month. Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin clambered...
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