More space for Mir

1999-01-27T15:27:00

Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov has signed a decree allowing the Mir space station to remain in orbit for a further three years. The station was to have been de-orbited in June, to allow the cash-starved Russians to concentrate on their obligations to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA will ...

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