Message posted by Jose on December 27, 2000 at 03:48:45 EST:
Tuesday December 26 6:05 AM ET By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - Russian Mission Control said Tuesday it had lost radio It was the latest apparent mishap for the nearly 15-year old space The last reported contact was Monday at 6:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. EST), Irina "The situation isn't catastrophic yet," Manshilina said, adding that After a terrifying fire and near disastrous collision with an unmanned The Mir - which was first launched on Feb. 20, 1986- had only one 73-day Mission Control usually contacts the space station several times a day. Even if radio contact cannot be established, an emergency crew might be The Russian Cabinet approved a plan to crash the Mir into the Pacific 900 Officials have said Russia should concentrate its funds on the new Russian Aerospace Agency chief Yuri Koptev said it was necessary to dump Calling for careful preparation for the Mir's descent, space officials The unoccupied U.S. Skylab space station fell to Earth in 1979 when its In 1991, fragments of the Soviet Salyut-7 space station, the Mir's Mission Control on Tuesday was also monitoring the docking of an unmanned ======================================================= Any comments or suggest? Jose
contact with the Mir space station , signaling a potentially disastrous
accident that could lead the now unmanned 140-ton vessel to spin out of
control and fall to Earth unguided.
station, which the Russian government had reluctantly decided to bring
down in a controlled descent in late February.
Manshilina, a spokeswoman for Mission Control said, and it proceeded
normally. But since then, attempts to contact the Mir have failed.
attempts to resume contact with the Mir would continue.
cargo ship in 1997 followed by a series of computer glitches and
breakdowns, Mir has been running relatively smoothly this year.
manned mission this year. The crew returned safely in June, raising
officials' optimism about the prospects of keeping it in orbit without a
crew.
sent to try to dock with the station and regain control, space officials
said.
to 1,200 miles east of Australia on Feb. 27-28. The decision followed
failed attempts to find private investors to keep the station operative.
international space station instead of the Mir - something the U.S. space
agency NASA (news - web sites) has been urging for years. NASA is leading
the 16-nation international project, which has suffered repeated delays
because of funding problems for Russian modules.
the Mir because experts could no longer guarantee the safety of its
operation. He said a cargo ship with an extra amount of fuel would be sent
to the Mir to give it a final jolt down. A crew of two cosmonauts was
getting ready for blastoff in case of an emergency, Koptev said.
recalled a Soviet satellite that crashed into northern Canada in 1978, in
a major embarrassment for the Soviet leadership. Nobody was hurt but
radioactive fragments were scattered over the wilderness.
orbit deteriorated faster than anticipated, scattering debris over western
Australia. No one was hurt.
predecessor, fell on Argentina's Andes Mountains near the Chilean border,
inflicting no damage or injuries but generating fears worldwide. Space
officials lost control of the Salyut-7 after trying to extend its lifetime.
Progress cargo ship with the International Space Station. The docking had
been scheduled for 6 a.m. EST.
If i were investor then should i have to buy MIR for 99 cent ... I hope it's not Pic-n-Save but serious, i thought NBC has agreed to retain The MIR for upcoming new series like Survivor and Who want to be millionaire? type last year. What's going on with NBC (I heard NBC abandon MIR for change of production)?
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