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After nine years in orbit, real estate aboard Mir is at a premium, and visitors like Thagard have to take what they can get. The storage locker where the veteran U.S. astronaut keeps his gear was originally the toilet, since supplanted by a newer model elsewhere on the station. Stowage in general is...
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