Dale Ireland (direland@drdale.com) >....Is this the beginning of the end for MIR? > I can imagine these questions > have been raised here already so to avoid repetition and flames please > e-mail me privately if this is old news on the mailing list. I see you have WWW access, and since the following info can be useful to other newcomers with fill Internet, I am posting this to SeeSat-L. To find out about mails you missed, look at : http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk:80/sat/seesat/hyper/index.html#1083 This will show mails sent as true replies, even if the Subject line has been changed, grouped together in threads. You can omit the #NNNN part if you have no clue to approximately where to start looking, and you can replace 'index' by 'date' to get a chronological listing, or by 'subject' or 'author'. You can also go directly to a specific mail by ending with /1083.html etc. Regarding the Mir fire, I can't recall anything on SeeSat-L, but Jonathan's Space Report #315 had this: The Mir crew of Korzun, Kaleri, Ewald, Tsibliev, Lazutkin and Linenger continued their mission on the complex in late February. On Feb 23 at 1935 UTC a fire broke out in a lithium perchlorate cartridge in the Kvant module used to generate extra oxygen on Mir, filling the complex with smoke. Korzun and Kaleri used extinguishers to fight the fire which was extinguished after 90 seconds; the heavy smoke persisted for about five minutes and the crew wore gas masks for two and a half hours. Now the crew are having difficulty generating sufficient oxygen for the life support system. (Details from Chris van den Berg and NASA). Since Chris van den Berg (as always) is a good source, check out http://infothuis.nl/muurkrant/mirmain.html in addition to: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/jsr/jsr.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -- bjorn@tt-tech.se +46-8-59095783 (office)-- -- b_gimle@algonet.se +46-8-7428086 (home) -- -- 59.22371 N, 18.22857 E AND member of : -- -- http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle SeeSat-L / SeeSat-D -- ------------------------------------------------------------