Astronaut Squeezes Aboard Mir Flight
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Wendy Lawrence’s shortness is no longer a shortcoming. The NASA astronaut will go aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1997. She had been dropped from the crew lineup because, at 5-foot-3, she was 1 1/2 inches below the Russian height standards. But Russian space officials have agreed to modify the seats in the cramped Soyuz capsules used for emergency escape from Mir, NASA spokesman Rob Navias said at Kennedy Space Center.
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