The Cold War Space Graveyard & The Silent Threat From The Stars
<p>On March 23, 2001, at 8:59 a.m. Moscow time, a group of Russian cosmonauts on Southern Fiji’s island <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/history/20-years-ago-space-station-mir-reenters-earths-atmosphere/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>gazed up at the sky</strong></a> and waited. And then, there they were: for a few fleeting seconds, a sequence of <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/03/23/mir.descent/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>golden lights</strong></a> streaked across the sky, leaving behind a trail of smoke. Sonic booms accompanied the spectacle created when objects break the sound barrier.</p>
<p>That was the end of the Mir space station’s 1.9 billion km (1.2 billion miles) journey around the world. After carefully <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/history/20-years-ago-space-station-mir-reenters-earths-atmosphere/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">orchestrated</a> burns from its thrusters, Mir’s 134-tonne modular structure re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into the <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3153458" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area</strong></a> (SPOUA), a region 34 times the size of France surrounding Point Nemo — a famous center of a spacecraft cemetery, an expansive, scattered rubbish dump for obsolete items in Earth’s orbit in the frigid and desolate South Pacific.</p>
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