ATLANTIS MISSION VERIFIES
Atlantis' retrieval of the German Crista-Spas satellite proved the utility of the rendezvous approach that NASA officials now plan to use for all of the planned dockings with Russia's Mir space station. ``We're formally going ahead right now'' with using the ``plus R bar'' approach for the Mir...
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