...necessary orientation," said Valery Lyndin, the Mission Control spokesman. Russian space officials have acknowledged that...station's descent trajectory. Vsevolod Latyshev, a Mission Control spokesman, said that Russia would make no efforts to recover...

...fears of an uncontrolled plunge by the aging orbiter. "We are maintaining full control of the station," Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said in a telephone interview. Space officials blamed their 20-hour loss of contact with the...