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MIR COSMONAUTS FOUND ANCIENT SATELLITE

Kosmodrome, Russia (AT) - Russian officials disclosed that a long lost
Soviet
satellite and not a resupply tug was the vehicle which crashed into
the side of
the MIR space station in 1998.

The accident focused media attention on the thirteen year old
facility's
continuing problems. However the announcement that the object that
crashed into
the side of MIR was in fact Sputnik 2 rocked the scientific community.

The satellite was believed to have burned up in the atmosphere several
days
after its 1957 launch. Russian scientists now admit that it had
remained in
high orbit for almost forty years until it impacted into the side of
the MIR space
station two years ago.

Sputnik 2 achieved great fame for being the first vehicle to carry
life into
outer space. The one thousand pound spacecraft put "Laika", a 98 lb.
Rottweiler/Terrier mix into earth orbit. Laika was reported to have
perished
when the satellite's thermal cooling unit malfunctioned.

Declassified documents reveal that for the cosmonauts of MIR the
arrival of
Sputnik 2 proved to be fortunate. Cosmonauts found the frozen body of
Laika
within its ancient container and used to dog's still fresh hide to
complement
their own food stuffs. The MIR food tug had malfunctioned the week
before and
had left them with a dwindling supply of food. "The consumption of
Laika
probably saved their lives," admitted a top Russian scientist.

Laika was awarded the Order of Lenin posthumously in 1958. It was
announced
at a press conference yesterday that she would now receive the Order
of Yeltsin
for her timely assistance of the MIR cosmonauts. But that was not the
final honor
bestowed upon the cosmic canine. Vowing not to let her bravery be
forgotten,
the scientist vowed to clone DNA from Laika's body, "so that we might
have many
more such animals to bring into outer space and to feed our men and
women."

Absolute nonsense. The Sputnik 2 reentry was confirmed by both the US
and USSR - at a time when there were NO other objects in orbit it
could have been confused with - and the Mir collision was extensively
reported on and documented on film at the time.

Matt Bille
Author, The First Space Race: Launching the World's First Satellites
(Texas A&M, 2004)

Matt wrote:

Absolute nonsense. The Sputnik 2 reentry was confirmed by both the US
and USSR - at a time when there were NO other objects in orbit it
could have been confused with - and the Mir collision was extensively
reported on and documented on film at the time.

Matt, check the date of the post you replied to.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL

On Apr 2, 9:35*am, (Derek Lyons) wrote:
Matt wrote:
Absolute nonsense. *The Sputnik 2 reentry was confirmed by both the US
and USSR - at a time when there were NO other objects in orbit it
could have been confused with - and the Mir collision was extensively
reported on and documented on film at the time.

Matt, check the date of the post you replied to.

D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

Ooh! Got me! ... but it's no crazier than some of the other "true"
stories that have come out of Russia in the post-Cold War era.

sheepishly, Matt

On Apr 2, 1:04 pm, Matt wrote:
On Apr 2, 9:35 am, (Derek Lyons) wrote:

Matt wrote:
Absolute nonsense. The Sputnik 2 reentry was confirmed by both the US
and USSR - at a time when there were NO other objects in orbit it
could have been confused with - and the Mir collision was extensively
reported on and documented on film at the time.

Matt, check the date of the post you replied to.

D.
--
Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh.

Ooh! Got me! ... but it's no crazier than some of the other "true"
stories that have come out of Russia in the post-Cold War era.

sheepishly, Matt

But April Fool's Joke are suppose to be funny!
This is just sick!

My $0.02

Keith W of St Louis, AKA Space Cadet

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:24:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

MIR COSMONAUTS FOUND ANCIENT SATELLITE

Kosmodrome, Russia (AT) - Russian officials disclosed that a long lost
Soviet satellite and not a resupply tug was the vehicle which crashed into
the side of the MIR space station in 1998.

....Note the posting date, kids.

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On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:24:43 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

MIR COSMONAUTS FOUND ANCIENT SATELLITE

Kosmodrome, Russia (AT) - Russian officials disclosed that a long lost
Soviet satellite and not a resupply tug was the vehicle which crashed into
the side of the MIR space station in 1998.

...Note the posting date, kids.

OM
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