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                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2021 March 28
   [2]A spacesuit is shown floating high above the Earth. See Explanation.

                     SuitSat-1: A Spacesuit Floats Free
              Image Credit: [3]ISS Expedition 12 Crew, [4]NASA

   Explanation: A spacesuit floated away from the [5]International Space
   Station 15 years ago, but no investigation was conducted. Everyone knew
   that it was pushed by the [6]space station crew. Dubbed [7]Suitsat-1,
   the unneeded Russian [8]Orlan spacesuit filled mostly with [9]old
   clothes was fitted with a faint [10]radio transmitter and released to
   orbit the Earth. [11]The suit circled the Earth twice before its
   [12]radio signal became unexpectedly weak. [13]Suitsat-1 continued to
   orbit every 90 minutes until it burned up in the [14]Earth's atmosphere
   after a few weeks. [15]Pictured, the lifeless spacesuit was
   photographed in 2006 just as it [16]drifted away from [17]space
   station.

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References

   1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
   2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2103/suitsat1_nasa_2008.jpg
   3. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition12/index.html
   4. https://www.nasa.gov/
   5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151109.html
   6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161105.html
   7. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/26jan_suitsat
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit
   9. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3258-old-clothes-filter-out-cholera/
  10. http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/radio.htm
  11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat
  12. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8687-announcement-of-suitsats-death-premature/
  13. http://microcontroller.com/news/microchip_suitsat1_nasa.asp
  14. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/469649main_earths-atmosphere-orig_full.jpg
  15. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_514.html
  16. https://dogtime.com/assets/uploads/2019/04/DogFloating.jpg
  17. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
  18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/random_apod.html
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  25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss
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  30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html
  31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/
  32. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html
  33. http://www.astro.umd.edu/
  34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply
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  36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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