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Mir crew lands safely in Kazakhstan.

Staff August 31, 1999
FINAL CREW of Russia's Mir orbital station landed safely early Saturday after closing down the 13-year-old spacecraft to await what controllers hope will be a deliberate reentry next February or March. Commander Viktor Afanasyev, flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev and French researcher Jean-Pierre...

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