61.  Russian space officials Monday blamed an overlooked clamp for blocking an attempt to separate an unmanned cargo capsule from the Mir space station.

62.  Russian space officials said Thursday that Vinogradov will enter Spektr while Solovyov shines a light behind him.

63.  That man, Lt. Col. Yuri Malenchenko, executed the complicated remote-controlled maneuver without a hitch, Russian space officials announced Friday evening.

64.  The equipment will be carried to Mir aboard a new unmanned Russian space module called Spketr.

65.  The financially drained Russian space program, with U.S. assistance, only recently recovered from a succession of life-support system failures that followed the blaze.

66.  The mission is the second step in increasing interaction with the Russian space program that began last year when cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev participated in a space shuttle mission.

67.  The notion that Russian space bureaucrats suddenly discovered that they needed a new permission form for a complex, long-planned international satellite launch carried a hollow ring.

68.  The mirror plan and test come as the Russian manned space program faces severe financial woes.

69.  The overall Russian space program suffers creeping deterioration as well.

70.  The Russian space program has its own methods to try to keep cosmonauts in condition, Charles said.