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April 28, 2014
Gravity....
A spacesuit floated away from the International Space
Station eight years ago, but no investigation was conducted. Everyone knew
that it was pushed by the space station crew. Dubbed Suitsat-1,
the unneeded Russian Orlan spacesuit filled
mostly with old
clothes was fitted with a faint radio transmitter and
released to orbit the Earth. The suit circled the Earth twice before its radio signal became unexpectedly
weak. Suitsat-1
continued to orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the Earth's atmosphere
after a few weeks. Pictured
above, the lifeless spacesuit was photographed in 2006 just as it drifted
away from space
station.
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