Mir to finish fatal descent later this month
Russia's aging Mir space station will likely crash into the Pacific sometime between March 15th and March 20th, depending on solar activity, RSC Energia lead designer Leonid Gorshkov told reporters yesterday. The Mir is currently at an orbit of 258 kilometers (about 160 miles), but that orbit is...
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