Russian developer of docking system dies
Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov, a Russian aerospace engineer who developed the docking mechanism that linked the U.S. space shuttle to the Russian Mir orbital facility and later to the International Space Station, died Sept. 19 of leukemia. He was 74. A key player in development of the system...
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