Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting

Tamara de Lempicka The Musician in Blue painting
Daniel Ridgway Knight A Passing Conversation painting

A Russian Mission Control official said on December 26, 2000, that contact had been restored with the unmanned space station Mir. Flight control outside Moscow lost contact with Mir around 3 p.m. local time Christmas Day, sparking intense activity by Russian space experts to restore radio signals with the unmanned craft and avert a potential catastrophe. This picture of Mir was taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91 in June 1998.
KOROLYOV, Russia - A top Russian space official on Tuesday ruled out a crash landing by the Mir space station after ground controllers restored contact with the accident-prone craft after an anxious 24 hour break.

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