ASTRONAUT CALLS RUSSIANS MISUNDERSTOOD HEROES.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Astronaut Michael Foale Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. spent much of his Mir mission trying to console his distressed Russian commander and reassure him that the nearly catastrophic collision wasn't all his fault and that being banned from spacewalking wasn't so awful. In his first news conference since returning to Earth early this month, Foale - speaking Wednesday at Johnson Space Center in Houston, 23 days after returning from Mir aboard space shuttle space shuttle, reusable U.S. space vehicle. Developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it consists of a winged orbiter, two solid-rocket boosters, and an external tank. Atlantis - described his Russian crew mates as misunderstood heroes and recalled his attempts to cheer up Mir commander Vasily Tsibliyev, who assumed - correctly - that some of his countrymen would blame him for the crash. Tsibliyev was guiding a cargo ship by remote control in a docking test when it slammed into the Russian space station June 25, piercing the hull of the pressurized pres·sur·ize tr.v. pres·sur·ized, pres·sur·iz·ing, pres·sur·iz·es 1. To maintain normal air pressure in (an enclosure, as an aircraft or submarine). 2. Mir and cutting power by half. |
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