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Mir Crisis Liane speaks with Bryan Burrough, author of "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard MIR" (Harper Collins) in part one of an interview dealing with Phase One of the American/Russian space program. Phase Two is the assembly of the International Space Station, which began last month with the Russian launch of the "Zarya" module and continues this weekend with the launch of the shuttle Endeavour and the docking of the American "Unity" module. Burrough details some of the serious problems between NASA and the Russian space program, and the factors that contributed to what he terms "the most dangerous six months in the history of manned space flight."

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Liane speaks with Bryan Burrough, author of "Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard MIR" (Harper Collins) in part one of an interview dealing with Phase One of the American/Russian space program. Phase Two is the assembly of the International Space Station, which began last month with the Russian launch of the "Zarya" module and continues this weekend with the launch of the shuttle Endeavour and the docking of the American "Unity" module. Burrough details some of the serious problems between NASA and the Russian space program, and the factors that contributed to what he terms "the most dangerous six months in the history of manned space flight."