Fiery End Drawing Near for Russia's Obstinate Mir. / Margaret Coker.
by Coker, Margaret; Zak, Anatoly; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 47Science. Publisher: Palm Beach Post, 2001; Zak/Anatoly, 2001ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Mir (Space station) | Space stations -- History | Space vehicles -- Atmospheric entry | Russians -- AttitudesDDC classification: 050 Summary: FIERY END DRAWING NEAR FOR RUSSIA'S OBSTINATE MIR -- "What goes up, must come down--even if it's 10 years late. When the Mir space station was launched Feb. 20, 1986, no one thought it would last more than five years. After a string of minor accidents in the early 1990s, space analysts started to sing Mir's funeral dirge." (PALM BEACH POST) The author highlights the significance of the Mir and describes how the space station will be driven back into the Earth's atmosphere.Summary: FALLEN STAR -- The author reflects on the day the Mir space station ended its 15-year history and mentions Yuri Koptev's appeal 'to the press to understand the mission planners' predicament--that in Russia today,t he money just can't keep pace with ingenuity." (AIR & SPACE)
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Originally Published: Fiery End Drawing Near for Russia's Obstinate Mir, March 15, 2001; pp. 1A+.
Originally Published: Fallen Star, June/July 2001; pp. 20-25.
FIERY END DRAWING NEAR FOR RUSSIA'S OBSTINATE MIR -- "What goes up, must come down--even if it's 10 years late. When the Mir space station was launched Feb. 20, 1986, no one thought it would last more than five years. After a string of minor accidents in the early 1990s, space analysts started to sing Mir's funeral dirge." (PALM BEACH POST) The author highlights the significance of the Mir and describes how the space station will be driven back into the Earth's atmosphere.
FALLEN STAR -- The author reflects on the day the Mir space station ended its 15-year history and mentions Yuri Koptev's appeal 'to the press to understand the mission planners' predicament--that in Russia today,t he money just can't keep pace with ingenuity." (AIR & SPACE)
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