Okay, so here's my opinion on the whole Mir
thing: Yes, Mir's time had come and gone, in fact it
stayed up 10 years longer than it was designed to. It
never was designed to be an orbiting hotel or a
spaceport to serve as a springboard for future space
endeavors. It was an orbiting science facility that had
become a danger to itself and any crew members that
dared to live there.<br><br>With the Progress
collision, the fire, the failing power grid, the
uncontrollable fungal growth, and the hundreds of loose cables
that were added to extend the stations useful life, it
was an (another)accident waiting to happen.<br><br>I
have read messages on other boards that said they
should take the good parts off of Mir and find a way to
connect them to the ISS to save money on new modules.
This is crazy. I would compare such an action to
taking the processor out of a Commodore 64 (remember
those?)and putting it into your new PC just to save money.
First of all they are WAY incompatible and Mir parts
are obsolete.<br><br>So, in my humble opinion, there
was not much more that they could do. Bring it back
now while there is still a chance of bringing it in
with some sort of control over where it will
fall.<br><br>Michael
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