Russia sends two cosmonauts and a bureaucrat to Mir

Russia launched its next-to-last Soyuz capsule to the Mir orbital station yesterday, sending two cosmonauts and a bureaucrat from President Boris Yeltsin's defense staff aloft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff of the Soyuz TM-28 came at 5:43 a.m. EDT, carrying Cosmonauts Sergei...

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