1.   Included in the cargo delivery are electrical cables and a custom-designed hatch plate that Russian cosmonauts are planning to install in the punctured Spektr module.

2.   Solovyov and Vinogradov first went inside the punctured module in August.

3.   Space officials had considered blowing colored gas through the punctured module to locate the holes, said Viktor Ren, who heads the weightlessness training.

4.   With their experiments ruined in the punctured Spektr module, the Americans could beg off future Mir flights on the grounds they would have little scientific value.