Mir crew gets $1,000 per manual docking.

COMMERCIAL SPACE: Initial reports that Cosmonaut Anatoli Solovyev took control of his Soyuz capsule during his Aug. 7 docking with Mir because the tried-and-true Kurs automatic docking system failed are wrong, but the official line as to what really happened stretches credulity too. That version...

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