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18th Episode: "Mir Mir Off The Wall:
Part One"
Aired week of Apr 28, 1997

Tamara readies for her mission aboard Mir, but a prolonged and suspicious break in communication with the space station causes concern at NASA.

Plot: (pasted from the official "The Cape" Web Site)

As Tamara returns to NASA after four months of training in Star City, Russia and readies herself to join cosmonauts on the Mir space station, a communication glitch cuts off any contact with Mir. Bull senses the problem may be more than a technical glitch, since the usually upbeat and chatty Cosmonaut Mikoyan seemed tense and abrupt in the last transmission received from Mir.

Momentary panic sets in when Riles, who is stationed in Star City as the NASA Operations liaison for the mission, reports that Soyuz-the Cosmonauts' life raft-has been launched and is approaching earth at an alarmingly dangerous velocity. Fortunately it is discovered to be unmanned. The NASA mission to Mir continues on schedule despite prolonged loss of contact with the station. Bull, Reggie and Tamara are close to Mir and cannot make short-range contact, so they are forced to do an automated docking. Tension rises since the movement of Atlantis docking still does not get a rise out of the cosmonauts. Placing himself at risk before his crew, Bull volunteers to board Mir and is shocked by what he finds.

Meanwhile, Tamara's relationship with her husband is still on rocky ground. A frustrating game of phone tag ensues after Tamara returns from her Russian training trip. She and Alan cannot seem to connect and she is about to embark on a mission that will put her on the Mir station for months without a communication link home. And Zeke stops answering his phone, causing concern among his former co-workers. Bull pays him a visit which momentarily gives Zeke false hope of getting back into the space program.

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