Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Shuttle Leak Fixed; Storms Peril Launch
Engineers sealed a helium leak in the space shuttle’s steering system, but storms still threatened today’s planned launching of Atlantis on the 100th U.S. manned mission--a historic flight to the Russian space station Mir, NASA said. Agency officials at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida said the mission had a 20% chance of taking off as scheduled. The Atlantis mission is the first of seven planned shuttle visits to Mir as the United States and Russia prepare to begin construction of a global space station called Alpha in 1997.
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