At 03:01 PM 08/28/1999 -0600, you wrote: >At 04:46 PM 8/28/1999 EDT, LWojack@aol.com wrote: ><snip> >>Just 10 minutes ago I recieved a report that "Mir is on the ground." >>Those are the precise words. Can anyone verify this? >> >>Jonathan >>lwojack@aol.com > > The last Mir crew is on Earth, and Mir is now unmanned (for the first time >in HOW long???). But I believe Mir is still in orbit. Does anyone know if they got the replacement gyro on board so that it won't start tumbling when the on-board corrections are no longer being made ? Steve