Re: SPACE: More Mir

Gina Miller (nanogirl@halcyon.com)
Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:41:34 -0700

NASA'a report of costs, budgets and partnership performance on the International Space Station program

http://www.nasa.gov/cavtf/index.html

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>Oops. Looks like they aren't even going to spend the few million they'd
>need to bring it down safely, let alone the hundreds of millions to save
>it:
>
>"``At present, there are no funds, not only for continuing the manned
>flight on the orbital station Mir, but also for carrying out its guided
>descent into a designated area of the ocean,'' top Russian space experts
>in charge of the Mir said in a statement Tuesday."
>
>Or maybe it's just a stunt to screw more money out of Western taxpayers to
>keep Mir going...
>
>See:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/science/story.html?s=v/ap/19990602/s c/russia_mir_2.html