Abbreviated Burn Leaves Satellite In Too-Low Orbit
The Sea Launch team is gathering and reviewing Telstar 18
mission data to understand the sequence of events that led to a
premature shutdown of the Sea Launch Zenit-3SL upper stage during
that mission earlier this week.
He was a former lumberjack who left the Russian forests for a
chance to rise above it all -- literally. Cosmonaut Andrian
Nikolayev, Russia's third man in space and, for a time, holder of
the space endurance record, Nikolayev suffered a heart attack on
Saturday in Cheboksary, the capital of his native Chuvash
Autonomous Republic. He was judging the All-Russian rural sport
games when he died. Andrian Nikolayev was 74.
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