Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off Tuesday, headed toward an orbital perch at the Mir space station and a place in history as the first U.S.-Russian joint.
It may not be a match made in heaven, but the American and Russian orbital liaison is becoming more than a marriage of convenience. Since shuttle Atlantis.
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