"It's clear there's opposition to the shuttle in the Soviet Union," said Marcia Smith, an analyst of the Soviet space program for the Library of Congress.

"I say, let's give the Republicans a fair chance," said Marcia Smith, 42, a statistician from Green Bay, Wis. "Nothing else seems to have worked."

At a recording session in November, Derrick Hewitt, 14, sat at his family's kitchen table in the Bronx with his mother, Marcia Smith, as she discussed his behavior toward his little brothers.

Such is the case with Marcia Smith, a nurse in Washington.

"He did amazing things with very little equipment," said Marcia Smith, a space policy analyst with the Congressional Research Service, which called upon Mr. Perry as a consultant for its reports on the Soviet space program.

Her mother, Marcia Smith, heads the mathematics department at the School of the Holy Child in Rye.

Firelight Media is a non-profit filmmaking company founded by filmmaker Stanley Nelson and Marcia Smith, located in New York City.

Marcia Smith, a space policy analyst with the Congressional Research Service, agreed that "Spacehab is taking the first bold step toward space station commercialization, which many people have talked about but no one has done before."

"I am not surprised that the Russians found a way to keep Mir up," said Marcia Smith, a space analyst with the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service.

Marcia Smith, a specialist on space policy with the Congressional Research Service, said that resumption of Russian financing was good news but that caution was required.