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| Keep Mir Alive Project History Page |
The Space Frontier Foundation Calls Mir's De-Orbit a Historic Tragedy
The Russian space station Mir was de-orbited in March of 2001.
We congratulate the people of Russia for operating history's longest-lived space station. But why was such a successful facility destroyed simply because the American space agency saw it as inconvenient while building its expensive new International Space Station? |
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| 10.11.98 |
Space Frontier Foundation Awards Mir Controllers for "Keeping Mir Alive"
In a ceremony held in Los Angeles on October 10, 1998, Space Frontier Foundation President Rick Tumlinson presented a special award for Pioneering the Space Frontier to Vladimir Syromiantnikov, senior designer, and Viktor Blagov, senior operator, Energia Mir Program, Russia for the heroic efforts of the Energia mission control center in Moscow in keeping the Mir Space Station operational during the very difficult period since its launch in February, 1986. |
| 01.09.98 |
SpaceHab President talks about Mir:
"It does not make sense to let the parts that have been put up in the last two or three years just burn up." (Shelly Harrison, Space News, January 5, 1998) |
From the Keep Mir Alive Archives:
Mir Links:
MirCorp
RSC Energia
Keep Mir Alive project information compiled by David Anderman
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| The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Our goals include protecting the Earth's fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Our purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System. |
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