Aug 14, 1997 9:04 AM

Mir Pair Land

Space station commander Vasily Tsibliyev and engineer Alexander Luzutkin landed at Russia's space base in Kazakhstan. They left as two Russian colleagues and US astronaut Michael Foale prepared for next week's attempt to fix the station, damaged in a collision with a cargo ship in June.

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