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Tuesday, February 1, 1994
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First U.S. shuttle flight with Russian cosmonaut to blast off Thursday
NASA began the countdown yesterday to the first U.S. shuttle flight with a Russian cosmonaut, a seasoned spaceman who will share orbital duties with an older, yet less experienced American crew.
Sergei Krikalev smiled broadly as Discovery's pilot called him "a man of many talents."
"We're going to keep him busy on this flight," pilot Kenneth Reigltter Jr. promised after arriving at Kennedy Space Center with the rest of the six-member crew.
The eight-day science mission, due to begin Thursday morning, will be only the second time Americans and Russians have flown together in space. The first was the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz docking.
None of the five U.S. astronauts assigned to Discovery's flight, all of whom are in their 40s, has spent more than nine days at a time in space.
Krikalev, 35, already has spent 463 days in space, nine times longer than the rest of the shuttle crew combined. Only one other person, cosmonaut Musa Manarov, has logged more space time.
Krikalev has spacewalked seven times. None of the five Americans has spacewalked even once.
Krikalev also is a champion aerobatic pilot, mechanical engineer and computer whiz who showed commander Charles Bolden Jr. a better way to use the shuttle's lap-top
computers.
Bolden gave Krikalev the job of using Discovery's robot arm to retrieve a satellite to be deployed by the crew during the mission. Krikalev also will help conduct science experiments aboard Discovery.
The cosmonaut was a quick study. "You can tell the guy's flown a lot," flight director Chuck Shaw said. "He's very comfortable in operating equipment."
MOGADISHU, Somalia Marines involved in street shootout
In the worst shooting involving American troops in three months, U.S. Marines opened fire in a street crowded with Somali waiting for free food yesterday. At least five people died, and many were wounded.
A U.S. official said the 22 Marines shot in self-defense after their five-vehicle convoy, which was carrying two American diplomats, was fired on by at least two Somali snipers.
Somalian witnesses said no one shot at the Americans. They said they felt the Marines fired because they thought hundreds of Somalis standing in a street outside a food distribution center were trying to stop the convoy.
The commander of Bangladeshhi soldiers said his men did not see any sniper when the Marines opened fire, but he could not rule out that shots were fired at the Americans. U.S. officials said the shooting involved three Humvees and two cars carrying two unidentified American diplomats to a meeting to discuss clan violence with representatives of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's coalition. The meeting was canceled after the shooting.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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