The Collision That Sent the Soviet Space Station Tumbling
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Sasha Lazutkin and Michael Foale recall an out-of-control vessel hitting Mir.
Russian cosmonaut Alexander ‘Sasha’ Lazutkin and U.S. astronaut Michael Foale recall the terrifying moment an out-of-control vessel struck the Soviet space station Mir. Together, they fought to save themselves and the station, but the reaction they received when they finally made it back home to their respective countries was very different.
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The Collision That Sent the Soviet Space Station Tumbling
Clip: Episode 2 | 1m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Russian cosmonaut Alexander ‘Sasha’ Lazutkin and U.S. astronaut Michael Foale recall the terrifying moment an out-of-control vessel struck the Soviet space station Mir. Together, they fought to save themselves and the station, but the reaction they received when they finally made it back home to their respective countries was very different.
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[Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] [Speaking Russian] The station just shudders around me I hear the alarm go ba, ba, ba, ba and it's the depressurization.
Losing the air in the station to the vacuum of space.
And then my ears start to pop.
I go, okay, I get what's going on.
We are leaking.
The air is moving out of the station.
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 36s | Sasha Lazutkin and his wife Lyudmila talk about the arrival of American astronauts at Star City. (1m 36s)
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