Mir crew fixes computer, prepares for spacewalks

Russia's Mir orbital station suffered another of its perennial computer failures last week, but the three-man crew was able to recover from the outage in time to begin preparations for two upcoming spacewalks. Mir lost attitude control when the main computer failed Friday, but by Saturday the two...

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