Mir cosmonauts prepare way for new attitude engine
Cosmonauts aboard Russia's Mir orbital station Friday completed the second of three spacewalks planned to replace a spent attitude control thruster at the end of a 45-foot boom on the Kvant module. Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin spent six hours, 34 minutes outside removing the new engine from...
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