An old man goes to the Wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 40 years.
The Wizard says: "Maybe, but you will have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you.
The old man says without hesitation: "I now pronounce you man and wife."
Mir and Atlantis dockIn 1996, the U.S. space shutttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir, for the first time dropping off a U.S. astronaut for an extended stay on the Mir. The astronaut, Shannon Lucid, was the first American woman to live aboard the Russian station (118 days). Lucid, a biochemist, was also the first woman to fly in space five times. The two craft joined up 245 miles (400-km) above Russia. This was the third in a series of dockings intended as preparation for a planned internationally operated space station. The flight was the 76th in the U.S. shuttle program and the 16th for the Atlantis orbiter, which had performed the two prior Mir dockings. Lucid made the return flight on Atlantis 16 Sep 1996.« |
