The 1996 STS75 Tether incident - proof of life surrounding Earth

It looks like you are gazing into an aquarium tank, notice how some of the 'Life' goes BEHIND the tether, the tether is 12 nautical miles long, making some of the round shining, pulsating life between 1 to 3 miles wide, using the tether as a Ruler.

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The astronauts on the US space shuttle Columbia spotted their

runaway Italian satellite early on Friday (1/3). They took some

final pictures and videotapes of the object, which was sent adrift

into space after a tether broke. "It's the brightest object in the sky after the sun," Claude Nicollier told flight controllers at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston.

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USA / SPACE 1 MARCH,1996

Map at mission control tracking shuttle

Ongoing mid-deck glove box experiment by Lieutenant-Commander Franklin

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Video sent from camera in payload bay with mission control saying

shuttle and satellite reached closest point

Mission control

Pacific ocean below

Payload bay

Views of tethered satellite after moving into sunrise light

(looks like a straight needle)

Astronaut describing what he sees saying, the long line is the

tether and there is a little bit of debris that flies with us

illuminated by the sun

Longer shot of the tether at 100 miles

Mission control

Payload bay

View of earth from shuttle

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