extraterrestrial. This is the Ural Mir, named in honor of the Shuttle-Mir program, a space-based collaboration between the United States and Russia that saw shuttles visit the orbiting station in ...

He is due to return to Earth on Mar. 22, after a record 438 days in space. Learn more about the shuttle and Mir flights pose new challenges. See the cover of the February 20, 1995 issue.

Dr. Sega founded the CSU Systems Engineering program in 2007; after serving as Under Secretary of the Air Force and Director of Defense Research and Engineering. He flew two NASA missions on the space ...