CAPE CANAVERAL: The Cold War may be over, but that doesn't mean those pesky
ex-Soviets are about to adopt American traditions. While his American and
Japanese comrades aboard the Space shuttle Columbia chowed down on seasonal
fare of off-the-shelf processed turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie
Thursday, Ukranian cosmonaut Leonid Kadenyuk opted instead for
blasphemer!
a nice juicy steak. NASA had conveniently stashed an
extra processed bird in case Kadenyuk changed his mind.
Over on the Mir, David Wolf appears to have been somewhat more successful
at converting his two Russian colleagues the space station trio had
smoked turkey for dinner.
International fowl diplomacy aside, scientists continue to debate whether
to have the astronauts re-release the orbital satellite they rescued in
Monday's spacewalk. While the shuttle may have more than enough turkey, it
may be short on fuel to support the job.
