NASA doesn't see leaky thrusters a problem for Mir docking missions.
Crew members of the Space Shuttle Discovery and Russia's Mir space station waved to each other from a distance of 44 feet as their two spacecraft orbited in formation yesterday, but only after their ground controllers overcame differences about the danger from a leaky Shuttle thruster that is not...
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