71.   A Russian Start booster rocket blasted into the sky with an Israeli satellite aboard on Tuesday, and today ground controllers said they had no contact with their satellite.

72.   According to Medvedkova, Russian ground controllers were guiding Zarya from a separate control room at the Mission Control outside Moscow.

73.   After six hours, the cosmonauts were clearly breathing heavily as they communicated with ground controllers.

74.   Again, ground controllers had to take over manual control to secure the car.

75.   Although there was no hope of putting the satellite into proper orbit, ground controllers could relay commands to it, Interfax noted.

76.   American military experts on Wednesday were examining data sent to ground controllers by an unmanned U.S. spy plane to determine why it went down over southern Iraq.

77.   Before a spacewalk, Padalka, the commander, asked the ground controllers to explain the meaning of some experiments.

78.   Besides the six people killed, three were seriously injured, including Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Crusing, the ground forward air controller.

79.   But unidentified ground controllers also were responsible for the accident, the Interfax news agency said, citing Star City spokesman Sergei Tafrov.

80.   By Thursday evening, ground controllers had Soho back in business.