Russia cuts Mir's stay on orbit by about six months
Russian officials have decided to deorbit the Mir station next summer instead of at the end of 1999 as a way to conserve scarce resources for the International Space Station. Government officials in Moscow told reporters Thursday the Mir program was promised another $100 million, in rubles, to...
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