`Mir' crew for spacewalk

Moscow - The Russian-US crew on the troubled Mir space station prepared yesterday for a space walk to dismantle a solar panel…

Moscow - The Russian-US crew on the troubled Mir space station prepared yesterday for a space walk to dismantle a solar panel which will later be replaced by a new one.

The cosmonauts hope to dismantle an outdated solar panel on the Kvant scientific module. It will then be replaced during another planned space walk on Thursday.

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