Astronaut Foale Reflects on 1997 Mir Collision Crisis and Personal Accountability

The 1997 Mir collision endangered the crew aboard the space station, though no fatalities occurred.

In the summer of 1997, a cargo vessel struck the Mir space station during a failed autonomous docking, puncturing a module and plunging the crew into hours of mortal uncertainty. Among those aboard was American astronaut Michael Foale, who would later make a quieter, more deliberate choice than any emergency maneuver: he accepted personal responsibility for the accident, even as the failure belonged more to systems than to any single person. Decades on, his reflection invites us to consider how accountability, wielded with care, can hold fragile partnerships together when the alternative is th

Astronaut Foale Reflects on 1997 Mir Collision Crisis and Personal Accountability

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