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While the two cosmonauts Atlantis will deliver to Mir plan a spacewalk to work on the two malfunctioning solar arrays, a longer term solution to low power on the station must await Atlantis' planned second visit in October. Stowed in its cargo bay will be the Mir Cooperative Solar Array, which was...
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