NASA revives mission switch option as Russians balk on Spektr launch
NASA has reactivated an option to switch the first Shuttle/Mir docking mission with a later Shuttle flight after Russian spacecraft managers indicated they might not be able to launch the Spektr laboratory module to Mir as early as planned. Mir's three-man crew, which includes U.S. astronaut...
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