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Author: Michael Foale and Robert Osserman with Marianne Freiberger
The right spin: how to fly a broken space craft
On the 25th of May 1997 a dramatic collision tore a hole into the space station
Mir
and sent it hurtling through space. As NASA astronaut
Michael Foale
tells
Plus
, the fate of
Mir
and its crew hinged on a classical set of equations.
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