Sputnik 99
... that during a spacewalk, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?
... that during a spacewalk, <a href="./Jean-Pierre_Haigneré" id="mwCPY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jean-Pierre Haigneré">Jean-Pierre Haigneré</a>, a French <a href="./Astronaut#Other_terms" id="mwCPc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Astronaut">spationaut</a> and crew member of the <i id="mwCPg"><a href="./Mir" id="mwCPk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mir">Mir</a></i> space station, deployed <b id="mwCPo"><a href="./Sputnik_99" id="mwCPs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sputnik 99">Sputnik<span id="mwCPw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>99</a></b> onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?