A make or break mission to save mankind's precarious foothold in outer space begins today when two cosmic repairmen blast off from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to rendezvous with the crippled Russian space station Mir.
`Mir' repair crew ready
A make or break mission to save mankind's precarious foothold in outer space begins today when two cosmic repairmen blast off…
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