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Russia's Secret: Did Space Station Nearly Die The Day It Was Born?
Russia's Secret: Did Space Station Nearly Die The Day It Was Born?
MSNBC // Technology & Science // SPACE NEWS Silent suspense surrounded birth of space station Russians recall glitch that required fast thinking after 1998’s initial launch http://www.msnbc.com/news/996722.asp By James Oberg, NBC NEWS SPACE ANALYST Nov. 21 — Five years ago, when the very first section of the international space station reached orbit, the entire program could have teetered on the edge of failure. It was Nov. 20, 1998, and the project was saved only through the last-minute intervention of some unsung Russian space experts, who never told NASA how close they had come to disaster. Or at least that’s the story told at the Russian space command center at Krasnoznamensk, southwest of Moscow, where military personnel do the actual communications with all 120 active Russian spacecraft. From Krasnoznamensk, data are transmitted to the better-known Mission Control Center in the northern Moscow suburb of Korolyov, where on Nov. 20, 1998, foreign dignitaries and journalists were celebrating — perhaps prematurely — the successful launch. |
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