The Smiling Ones on Space Station Mir

On March 19, 2001 the Russian Space Station Mir disappeared from low earth orbit. There was no collision or explosion; one minute it was there, and the next it wasn't. For twenty-four panicked hours a select group of elite scientists, intelligence agents, and government officials worked tirelessly to figure out what had occurred, while simultaneously preventing the general public from discovering that anything had happened at all.