1.   Before their flight, the three astronauts will fill out brief questionnaires indicating their impression of the overall flavor and levels of sweetness, tartness and carbonation.

2.   During five days of operations, the six astronauts and four cosmonauts aboard the two spacecraft plan crew and equipment exchanges.

3.   Even as the six astronauts sleep, an experimental robot will try its hand at forging semiconductor materials for high-speed electronics gear.

4.   Faced with the prospect of making a quick return to Earth and an aborted mission, the three astronauts managed to reconfigure their docking system and linkup.

5.   Everyone seemed relieved, even though the five astronauts will be forced to share cramped quarters until two members of the old crew depart next week.

6.   For the seven astronauts and the launching crews, the postponement of the Columbia liftoff Saturday was the fourth in nine days.

7.   Glenn was the oldest of the Mercury team, and he was considered the front-runner in a friendly competition among the seven astronauts to be first in space.

8.   John Glenn upstaged mission commander Curt Brown again Sunday when the two astronauts held their first in-orbit press conference with earthbound reporters.

9.   Of the three astronauts, only Aldrin has plans to attend many of the events commemorating the anniversary.

10.   On Tuesday, the six astronauts plan to deploy a satellite-borne solar observatory that will be retrieved later this week.