1.   He derided space flights such as the recent shuttle mission on which fish and insects were studied.

2.   NASA also found slight singeing of the O-ring seals of nozzle segments taken from recent back-to-back shuttle flights.

3.   Unlike recent shuttle missions, Discovery will not carry any major new segments for the space station.

4.   The senior U.S. envoy who negotiated it, Richard Holbrooke, shed the cautious demeanor of his recent shuttle mission to the Balkans.

5.   The U.S. official who negotiated it, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, shed the cautious demeanor of his recent shuttle mission to the Balkans.

6.   National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials maintain that they have solved the O-ring problems discovered on two recent shuttle missions.