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...there's no funding, so the Russian Space Agency can't keep space station Mir aloft. We asked those versed in the ways of space, "What would you do with Mir...
...Americans have been pushing for this for a while," he says. "It should have happened three years ago, but the Russians kept it taped together until now out of pride." Chuckle not, NASA -- the ISS, already late and over budget before it's even habitable, should have half Mir's luck. "Say what we will about Mir's jalopy days, next spring will be 14 years for a station intended to last only five," says Kluger. "Most of those years were smooth and uneventful." Now Mir's current crew will be its last. The three cosmonauts will abandon ship...
After 13 years in orbit, the world's first -- and greatest -- orbiting jalopy has been scheduled for a Viking funeral. Russian space officials announced Tuesday that unless private funding (Donald Trump? Michael Jackson?) comes to the rescue, the space station Mir will be abandoned to die a fiery death in the Earth's atmosphere sometime in spring...
...Russians may launch an obscure Welsh-born, U.S.-based garbage-treatment tycoon into space--if he can come up with the $100 million needed to keep Mir aloft through 2000. The Russian government announced this year that it will have to wean Mir of funding this fall in order to pay for completion of the Russian modules for the International Space Station. So Energiya, the state corporation that built Mir, created a subsidiary to raise hard currency. That's when PETER LLEWELLYN, 51, head of Microlife, a Minnesota company specializing in waste disposal, heard his calling. Paunchy and with...
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