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

72.   The six-hour space excursion will be the first untethered one by American astronauts in more than a decade.

73.   They urged Goldin to halt the program rather than dispatch the final American astronauts, Dave Wolf and Thomas.

74.   This spacewalk is to be the last by an American astronaut from Mir.

75.   Those outings will become the most by an American astronaut.

76.   Thousands had already watched Alan Shepard become the first American astronaut in space the previous year.

77.   Two American astronauts, Dr. Norm Thagard and Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, are now in Russia, training to fly to Mir early next year.

78.   U.S. and Russian space officials said American astronaut Mike Foale and his cosmonauts hosts, Anatoly Solovyev and Pavel Vinogradov, were in no danger.

79.   Two American astronauts already have been disqualified from flight training in Russia for Mir missions because they were too tall or too short for the Soyuz.

80.   Under a U.S.-Russia agreement, American astronauts, including Norman Thagard and Shannon Lucid, also have taken part in the Mir mission.