Greetings Igor and List, Thank you for forwarding the story briefly summarizing the Mir Space Station's history and planned deorbit. I just wanted to add my opinion with regard to the following sentences: > The Mir Station accommodated 28 long-term basic expeditions > accompanied by 16 visiting expeditions lasting from a week to a > month. Of them 15 expeditions were international ones. More > over, 9 visiting expeditions were conducted with Space Shuttle > orbiters ferrying 37 US astronauts, 1 Canadian astronaut, 1 ESA > astronaut, 1 French astronaut and 4 Russian cosmonauts. The > Mir Station became essentially the first international space station. It is precisely for these reasons that I will never refer to the International Space Station as "Alpha". I don't know the history behind how this name came about, but as an American I would be embarrassed if my country had anything to do with it. Best wishes, Rob Matson ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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