Mir crew plans another trip in airless Spektr module

Mir's two-man crew plans to enter the depressurized Spektr module on Sept. 15 to repair the system that keeps the damaged solar arrays pointed toward the sun, Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reported. Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Avdeyev started preparations for the internal spacewalk...

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