Mir crew set to return tonight; no follow-on flight scheduled

Two Russian cosmonauts who have spent the past two month getting the 14-year-old Mir orbital station ready to receive commercial visitors will return to Earth tonight, leaving the station abandoned again with no firm date set for anyone to return. A spokesman for MirCorp, the private joint venture...

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