Credit & Copyright: ISS Expedition 12 Crew,
NASA
Explanation:
A spacesuit floated away from the
International Space Station eight years ago,
but no investigation was conducted.
Everyone knew that it 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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