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Russian Space Controllers Lose Contact With Mir (UPDATED)

Posted by michael on from the look-out-below! dept.

Ben De Luca pointed out that CNN has a headline story about losing contact with the unmanned Mir space station. Hmmmm. So much for a "controlled descent." Update: 12/26 06:37 PM by T : Contact has been regained (thanks, Nennon) -- so, no Skylabs worries, yet.

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  1. Re:Too bad. by Julius+X · · Score: 3

    US astronauts shaking hands with Russian cosmonauts in a Russian craft 20 years ago would've been unheard of. Its nice to see that people have come together with a common goal and worked together to achieve it.

    Uhm..... Russians and Americans did shake hands in space roughly 25 years ago, long before Mir, on the Apollo-Soyuz mission back in the mid-1970s.

    -Julius X

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  2. But they're back in contact now by hey · · Score: 3

    Now the story at CNN says they are back in contact.