Traveling at five miles a second, 250 miles above the Earth’s surface, Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev wakes to a message from his handlers on the ground: the Soviet Union is collapsing. And so is the Soviet Space agency. You have a choice: come down as planned and abandon the world’s only space station to an unknown fate. Or stay, protect the final outpost of a falling empire and risk your life? Like what you hear? Follow us @kscope_nyc on Twitter and Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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250 miles above the earth, traveling at 5 miles a second, a man completes a perfect circle around the globe.
His name is Sergei Krekalev.
He's a Soviet cosmonaut and he's manning the world's only space station, the pride and joy of the USSR.
The year is 1991.
Sergei has been up there for three months by now.
On the space station, every day starts the same way, with a call at 7:00am Moscow time from mission control.
He reports his stats, blood pressure, heart rate and mood.
Sometimes in the evening when he feels lonely, he will tune his ham radio equipment to the right frequency and make contact with his friend in Australia, Maggie.
They chat about what he's done that day and she sends him clippings from the newspapers.
Oh, that's a pleasure, a pleasure to do.
No problems there.
As the days bleed into one another, he's starting to feel a bit space sick.
He's been counting down the weeks till he's due to come back to earth, back to his home, his wife and their one year old daughter.
But then one day, his friend, this woman in Australia, Maggie, tells him something troubling.
She says, sergey, something bad is happening in your country.
After months of strikes, protests, deepening economic.
Chaos, people are sleeping in trouble.