Sunday March 18, 2001
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's 40 tons of space debris! Yep, they're bringing the Mir down this week, a historic, fiery descent that'll land it - "hopefully," say the scientists with a wink - in a remote, unpopulated swath of Pacific Ocean. Of course, the Russians just took out a multimillion-dollar insurance policy in case something goes wrong, in whi…
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