Creepy Lunchtime Viewing... 'Decommissioned'
Work is taking priority today, and most of yesterday as well, so I haven't had time to write a review. I was looking through Tor.com though (trying to convince myself that I don't have a really important meeting coming up...) and found this pretty creepy short ghost story that I thought I'd share... :o) This totally passed me by but apparently, in 2006, the crew of the ISS equipped one of their Russian-made Orlan spacesuits (which had reached the end of it's lifespan) with some batteries and a transmitter, and released it into space broadcasting a signal that anyone with a ham radio on Earth could pick up. They called it SuitSat 1, and it lasted for months until it burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere later that year. In 2011, they released another one, SuitSat 2, which burned up in January 2012. What if it hadn't though...?