Sunday, April 27, 2014

Shades of the movie Gravity.



A spacesuit floated away from the International Space Station eight years ago, but no investigation was conducted, because everyone knew that it was tossed on purpose by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1, the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit, filled mostly with old clothes, was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and released to orbit the Earth. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly weak. Suitsat-1 continued to orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere after a few weeks. Pictured above, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed in 2006 just as it drifted away from space station.

Kinda creepy if you ask me.  Also, how does a multi million dollar spacesuit become "unneeded," and old clothes?  Sounds like cleaning out the closet at home.  Strange.



2 comments:

  1. The Russian Space Suit would have been an awesome static display in my den/man cave. Alas.

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    1. Hear, hear! Imagine what they could have gotten for it on Ebay! Total waste.

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