Mir Mortals: Horizon

BBC Four HD

12:00 AM to 12:50 AM

Wednesday 11 February

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An edition of the programme from 1998 telling the story of four men who orbited Earth on board the ill-fated Mir space station, which Nasa declared unsafe in 1991. Although it had been lived in almost continuously since being launched in 1986, the joint Russian-American mission saw unprecedented problems on board in 1997, from fire, power blackouts and mechanical breakdowns to a dramatic midspace collision that left everyone scrambling for their lives. Contributors include American astronauts Jerry Linenger and Michael Foale, cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Sasha Lazutkin, and ground support staff including Tamara Globa, one of Russia's foremost astrologers