Russia opts for internal spacewalk to fix Mir

The two cosmonauts on Russia's Mir orbital station will don spacesuits and try to reconnect power lines from the depressurized Spektr module to save the failing station while their American colleague waits in the Soyuz capsule in case an evacuation becomes necessary. Frank Culbertson, head of NASA's...

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