Two Cosmonauts Test Rescue ‘Motorcycle’
<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW —
Soviet cosmonauts left the Mir orbital station on Monday for a second test of a space “motorcycle” designed to rescue space crews in distress and repair satellites.
Cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko and Alexander Serebrov, who have been aboard the Mir complex for nearly five months, tested the device, officially known as the Cosmonaut Movement System, the official news agency Tass said.
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