INTRO-- If you're out looking at the sky this evening, you may be able to see the Mir space station. The 15-year old Russian station is passing by the earth tonight in a path that will make it easier to see than usual. Russian officials lost control of Mir for about 20 hours last week. They now say they'll use an unmanned cargo ship to drop the space station into the Pacific Ocean in late February. Bob Bonadurer is the director of the Minneapolis planetarium. He's on the line now.
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