`Mir' spacewalk is postponed

Moscow - A joint Russian-American spacewalk from the Russian space station Mir will not take place on December 5th as originally…

Moscow - A joint Russian-American spacewalk from the Russian space station Mir will not take place on December 5th as originally scheduled, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said yesterday.

"The spacewalk scheduled for December is being postponed to January," Mr Sergei Gorbunov said. "The cosmonauts have done a great deal of work and they need to rest."

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