1.   A dispute has flared up in the capital around a pair of space missions that will send Rhesus monkeys into orbit aboard Russian spacecraft.

2.   Experts say the combination of Russian spacecraft and American biomedical equipment is beginning to produce the first real understanding of the fate of humans as space travelers.

3.   He would be taken to the station on a Russian spacecraft.

4.   However, the U.S. space agency is closely monitoring Russian spacecraft production and developing options to make up for lapses in the Progress missions where it can.

5.   It was the first coupling of U.S. and Russian spacecraft in two decades.

6.   Oh, certainly it was there, and a Russian spacecraft even poked around its dusty trail out in space.

7.   Over the years Russian spacecraft have suffered seven disastrous malfunctions while scoring only four partial successes.

8.   Previous Russian spacecraft had reported hints of magnetism but nothing conclusive.

9.   Rounding out the crew is Brig. Gen. Jean-Loup Chretien of the French Air Force, who has made two previous flights into space aboard Russian spacecraft.

10.   Ten days later, a Russian spacecraft bound for the red planet will lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.