Ep 32: Stratosphere

In the early 1990's, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled to the MIR, the then Soviet Union's version of the International Space Station. He never realized that he would basically be stranded up there and upon his return his country would no longer exist. Join us as we put together two different ideas to turn this piece of history into a piece of subtle science fiction of the near future.

Article in discussion
Unfortunately the original article we discuss seems to have been taken down. So we used an LA Times article of the same story.