[petuniasevan]

MIR's demise over Fiji 3-22-01

And a fond farewell haiku to MIR:

Say what you will about the Russians; they kept that rattletrap station going 15 years.
The much-vaunted International Space Station is already scaled way back, with needed parts not available.
If it does ever get finished it will not deliver as promised.

Neither will it last 15 years.

[petuniasevan]

[RadioAstronomer]

I agree. :-(

IMHO, Skylab was an excellent scientific platform. (also the "first" space station)

[RightWhale]

The whole pile, or pieces of the pile could have been sent to lunar orbit without much trouble. The cost to re-orbit
would be about $3 billion, and the cost to build the hardware will have to be repeated on top of that. It could even have been landed on the moon in pieces and would have served as the beginnings of the manned moon base. Say what you want, there is no moon base, and that is due to a political decision.

[da_toolman]

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