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Article #9143Re: Japanese MIR?
From: Peter Scott
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 23:16
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 23:16
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In article <31536@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) writes: > >o Date: 13 Dec 89 16:08:45 GMT >o >o TOKYO -- A Japanese firm has bought Moscow's only surplus Mir space >o station and an experimental science module for $10 million to help >o promote Japan's space industry, the company's president said Wednesday. > >Say what? I figure the price may be off by a few orders of magnitude, >but what's this really supposed to mean? Hold on -- isn't this the MIR that the Soviets took around air shows and the like? I thought it was an engineering mock-up, sort of like the Enterprise shuttle. Certainly not flightworthy. In the AW&ST article about this, it was rather clearer, and there was no mention of any Japanese intention to put any of their purchase into space. This suggests that $10M is a fair price. Anyone got different information? Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV!pjs From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Japanese MIR? Message-ID: <8912192316.AA01689@aristotle.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 19 Dec 89 23:16:13 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19