1.   Once aloft, the shuttle crew will dock late Saturday with the uninhabited first components of the international space station.

2.   Russian-German space crew docks with Mir.

3.   The station would also rotate chaotically, making it hard for any emergency crew to dock and try to regain control.

4.   Two days after blasting off, a Russian-German space crew docked their spacecraft with the Mir orbiting station, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.