Nation IN BRIEF : TEXAS : Astronaut Settles In for Mir Mission

Working like skycaps high above Earth, astronauts and cosmonauts lugged 12-gallon sacks of water and other supplies from space shuttle Atlantis to Russia’s Mir station. American Shannon Lucid, assigned to the station for the next five months, spent her second day as a Mir crew member settling in and reacquainting herself with her Russian colleagues, Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev. She is the first American woman to live on the orbiting Russian outpost, and only the second American. Norman Thagard was the first, on a mission last year.