[FPSPACE] Mir rescue crew

[Dwayne Allen Day]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Igor Lissov wrote:

> It seems that Mir rescue crew will fly after all. Even without
> recent comm blackout, Mir suffers from unstable telemetry
> transponder. If the device finally fails, Mir goes uncontrolled.
> So the crew onboard becomes a prudent option.
> The problem is that we need experienced commander to
> dock with possibly unstable station and experienced flight
> engineer to cope with current and future failures onboard.

I have visions of the final scenes of Dr. Strangelove, with Major Kong
riding the H-bomb like a bucking bronco...  Will we have a Mir commander
straddling the core module, waving his ten-gallon hat as he yells
"Yeee-haw!!!"?  (And how does one translate "Yeee-haw!!!" into Russian
anyway?)



DDAY