Get Ready For Mir The Sequel

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With little support from NASA for visiting tourists at ISS, RSA is hoping an independent space station will provide a destination for space tourists

Moscow (AFP) Jan. 10, 2001
Russia's Space Agency, creators of the 14-year-old Mir, announced Wednesday it plans to replace the soon-to-be-destroyed station with a new one, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

Unfazed by lack of financing or Mir's hazard-ridden history, the Space Agency's president Yuri Semyonov said the new station, or rather "a free module", would be constructed in a couple of years.

The module, designed for purely commercial purposes such as tourism, would be able to both drift in space and dock with the Russian section of the International Space Station, Semyonov said.

The MirCorp company, which is Mir's commercial manager, would pay for the project.

Russia has decided to destroy the ailing Mir because of a lack in funds for its upkeep, and space officials have since expressed concerns that Russia's other space programs might be woefully underfinanced.

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Russia Forms Commission To Oversee Mir Deorbiting

Moscow (Interfax) Jan. 10, 2001
Russia's Mir space station will be taken out of orbit and sunk in the Pacific Ocean in February-March 2001, according to a resolution signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on December 30, the Russian Aerospace Agency told Interfax.

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