| SOUTH PACIFIC: Aging Soviet space station Mir had a mare last Tuesday when it dropped from its orbit 230 miles above the Earth and plummeted into the atmosphere, breaking into a thousand pieces and hurtling to earth in a fiery descent.
"There I was orbiting quite happily as I have done since being launched in February 1986, when suddenly my Russian controllers fired my retro rockets, pushing me out of orbit, eventually causing me to fall into the fiery embrace of the earths atmosphere. What a nightmare," stated the remnants of the space station speaking from its final resting place at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. "This was heaps worse than my mozza in 1997 when cosmonaut Vasily Tsibliyev accidentally crashed a cargo craft into me during a docking maneuver." BELOW:Mir, in happier times. Blissfully unaware of role in forthcoming fiery descent from elliptical orbit of planet Earth and meteor like plunge into the uncharted and unexplored hell that is the depths of the insatiable Pacific Ocean, briefly capturing the worlds attention before becoming the bane of gullible eBay customers throughout the United States, Japan and perhaps even parts of Western-Canada.  |
| Mir has Mare |
Sunday, 01 April 2001 13:00
