1.   American Mike Foale and Russians Vasily Tsibliev and Alexander Lazutkin escape death by quickly sealing off the damaged Spektr module from the remainder of the orbital station.

2.   SEP also makes equipment for satellites and orbital stations and propulsion systems for the military.

3.   The Atlantis crew helped prepare the orbital station for its first occupants.

4.   The shuttle will deliver supplies and a new American astronaut to live and work as a guest in the orbital station.

5.   A cargo ship carrying goods for the crew aboard the Mir docked with the orbital station on Tuesday, the Russian Space Agency said.

6.   Next summer, crew commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Sergei Avdeyev will take their turn on the orbital station.

7.   The next crew also will try to replace an orientation engine in one part of the orbital station, Vladimir Solovyov said.

8.   Two Russian cosmonauts carried out a space walk Friday to prepare the orbital station Mir for its docking with a scientific module, the Interfax news agency reported.

9.   Courses include astro-navigation, gravitational astronomy, gymnastics, exercises on rotating chairs, spells in the decompression chamber and in an orbital station simulator.

10.   Due to dock with the orbital station Saturday.