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...said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked him to film the numbers...
...including the fans that keep oxygen circulating. To stay alive, the cosmonauts had to wave their hands in front of their faces to gather in breathable air and flap away carbon dioxide until Mir could power up again. "No one knew how torturous it was for the cosmonauts," says Bezyaev. "They spoke absolutely coolly...
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