71.   The repair mission continued to pay dividends Tuesday.

72.   The repair mission would include reconnecting those panels via cables to a power distribution system elsewhere in the station.

73.   The repair mission was broadcast live on CNN and BBC television.

74.   The U.S. space agency NASA has agreed to have astronaut Michael Foale train for a key repair mission on the damaged Mir space station, Russian officials said Wednesday.

75.   They carried out a dummy run of their repair mission under water to simulate weightlessness.

76.   Tsibliyev asked mission controllers whether they thought he would be able to participate in the repair mission.

77.   Two cosmonauts are spending their first day on the damaged Russian space station Friday learning their way around and preparing for a daunting repair mission.

78.   Tsibliyev asked, referring to the repair mission.

79.   Valery Lyndian, a spokesman for Mission Control, said Tsibliyev would repeat the exercise and space officials would decide Tuesday whether he could participate in the repair mission.

80.   Valery Lyndin, a spokesman for Mission Control, said space officials would decide Tuesday whether he could participate in the repair mission.