APOD 4.6

Todays APOD is from April 27th and is pretty cool

This is an image of the space suit that was sent into the orbit of the earth with a weak transmitter to signal it's location. This was sent out by the Russians as it was an unneeded Orlan suit that was being used as a closet with old clothes and trash. It orbited the planet twice but lost connection. After about an hour and a half, it fell out of orbit toward the earth and burned up in the atmosphere. Just a cool space story. BTW, these suits cost about 1.2 MILLION dollars each.