Article: Mir crew may have caused collision Cosmonauts' overloading of supply ship with trash is one crash explanation

The three men aboard Mir might have caused last week's collision by accidentally stuffing too much garbage into the cargo ship that slammed into the space station.

Russian flight controllers are testing the still-orbiting cargo ship to see if that, indeed, is what happened.

"Until they finish their testing . . . we're not going to get anything specific," Frank Culbertson, director of NASA's shuttle- Mir program, said Monday. He described the possibility of overloading as "a potential factor in all of this." The two Russians and one American had filled the Progress supply ship with space-station trash before setting it loose last week. The accident the worst space collision ever ...

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