Spaced out

摘要

June 1997. About 350 kilometres above Earth, the Russian Progress resupply vehicle begins closing in on the Mir space station. But Mir's range-finding radar begins malfunctioning. With only the on-board camera, handheld range finders and their eyes, Mir's cosmonauts struggle to see the approaching vehicle. To get a better view, they begin moving between the station's modules. Yet they start to feel disoriented. When the cosmonauts finally spot Progress, it is too close and moving too fast. The supply vehicle smashes into Mir, rips apart a solar panel, punches a hole in one of the modules and decompresses the station.