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Article: Mir crew may have caused collision Cosmonauts' overloading of supply ship with trash is one crash explanation
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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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 ...