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...long voyage of the space station Mir will end Friday, when the spacecraft's controllers in Russia bring it down to its final resting place on earth. Mir, which has already passed the "point of no return" for its final descent, served as an inspiration for many who saw it as the first step towards colonizing space. But there was no choice: after crashing into one too many Soyuz capsules, the craft was suffering from repeated electronic failures. Another loss of radio contact with Mir could have sent the craft into "uncontrolled descent." (Read "New York...
...when the crash comes, nostalgic cosmonauts and Russian patriots will not be the only ones upset. The other worried parties are the residents of the southern Pacific, which will be the new home for perhaps as much as 25 tons of Mir debris. The one good thing to come out of their endangerment is that Taco Bell (long known for its interest in space exploration) has created a 40-foot by 40-foot floating target in the Pacific Ocean for Mir to hit -- and has promised a free taco to every man, woman and child in America if the target...
...million Insurance premium Russia is buying against the possibility that Mir will crash into something other than the Pacific Ocean...
...Number of Mir fragments, some as big as a car, expected to fall to Earth...
...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...