I once posed the question: what is the possibility of the Chinese "taking over" Mir (when it was abandoned) rather tham let millions of dollars in equipment burn up... Not as a hostile act, but simply to save it. The overwhelming response reponse was that the very bad political ramifications (possibly leading to war, etc.) of "stealing" some other nation's space gear was not even worth considering. You should get the adolescent Reaganesque "Evil Empire" stuff out of your head, the Russians are too poor to fly to their own space station, they don't need a shuttle (they have one already, and it can carry more payload than ours), what they need is food and an economy. We wish them well and hope they recover from years of oppression. -- Tom Troszak Asheville, NC, USA 35.601 N, -82.554 W elevation 2,300 ft. mailto:tom@bullhammer.com http://www.bullhammer.com/satphotos1.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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