Subj : Re: Is There SomeBody To : Nastya Garbuzova From : Charles Radley Date : Tue Jul 04 2000 01:20 am Hi Nastya ! It is very good to see three people from Russia posting. Can you tell us which city or region you are ? [ This is not a rule, I am only curious :) ] -=> Nastya Garbuzova wrote to Dmitry Gurov <=- NG> ------ Aa?oNgbgo NG> e gNiU, _Dmitry_!------ NG> Thu Jun 29 2000 unN-g< o 15:20, *Dmitry Gurov* wrote to *Vadik NG> Akimoff*: VA>> So, what do you think about russian space station 'MIR' ? DG> I think, that it will be a big bOOm in few years :) NG> a2ao! , a + NG> na-!?go o g?o?+ <+Na!... NG> It'll be better not on our heads... :) This is an interesting question. Originally NASA had requested that Mir be deorbited. But now RKK-Energia has made a contract to keep Mir in orbit. Microrp is now trying to obtain funds to pay for reboosting. They are planning to attach an electro-magnetic tether, this will make reboosting ery cheap, use solar-electric power. So far the Russian government and Russian Space Agency (RKA) are not objecting. NG> --- NG> * Origin: Queen of Rain (2:5022/115.33) Thanks for the English origin line ! Best regards, Charles R. .... Assistant Moderator, SPACE & the 8 "SB-" prefixed echoes --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Sirius BBS * Portland, OR (503) 291-1908 * V.34 (1:105/24) .