Mir crew finds airlock leak in three-hour spacewalk
Mir cosmonauts found the source of a pesky airlock leak in a three- hour spacewalk Thursday night, pinpointing a broken latch rather than suspected gasket damage as the cause of the problem. The hardware can be repaired without another spacewalk, and the hatch probably will hold pressure with the...
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