Russian Space Agency will not operate Mir beyond 1999
Russia's Mir orbital station will be retired and deorbited in late 1999, after the last contracted foreign visitor departs, General Director of the Russian Space Agency Yuri N. Koptiev has confirmed. Asked last Saturday about the usefulness of further extension operations aboard Mir, which has been...
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