Docking With Mir
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Last year something amazing took place, but it wasn't in a laboratory. It
wasn't under the ocean, and it wasn't on the land. It was in space. The
docking of the United States's Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Russian Space
Station Mir was an important step towards international cooperation in space. ....
Middle of paper
.... a gap of four thousand
miles at an altitude of 245 miles while traveling at 17,500 miles per hour, only
to have to move within three inches and two degrees of a quickly moving, very
fragile object in space. One small thrust of a poorly aligned engine could cost
one of four space-worthy shuttles and the world's first and only long-term space
station.
Docking was over with soon, and was followed by the cosmonauts of Mir
greeting the astronauts of Atlantis. Gifts of flowers, candy and fruit were
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