11.   Told not to grab coats, they huddled in near-freezing weather for several minutes until a shuttle carried them to the terminal.

12.   The shuttle carried no cargo, just Young and his co-pilot, Robert Crippen.

13.   The shuttle also will carry up bolt-cutting tools so spacewalking cosmonauts can fix balky solar panels.

14.   The shuttle will also carry about a dozen rats for astronauts to study the causes of the loss of bone matter during space flights.

15.   The shuttle will carry seven astronauts and cosmonauts.

16.   The shuttle will also carry baby mussels, sea urchin eggs and embryonic fish as part of experiments on the effects of near weightlessness on small, aquatic creatures.

17.   The shuttle will carry a five-member crew and is to attach a permanent module to Mir that will serve future rendezvous between the shuttles and Mir.

18.   The shuttles already carry private cars and trucks, while the tunnel is also used by freight trains and Eurostar passenger expresses.