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From: pjs@ARISTOTLE-GW.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Japanese MIR?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 23:16:13 GMT
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In article <31536@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) writes:
>
>o Date: 13 Dec 89 16:08:45 GMT
>o 
>o 	TOKYO -- A Japanese firm has bought Moscow's only surplus Mir space
>o station and an experimental science module for $10 million to help
>o promote Japan's space industry, the company's president said Wednesday.
>
>Say what?  I figure the price may be off by a few orders of magnitude,
>but what's this really supposed to mean?

Hold on -- isn't this the MIR that the Soviets took around air shows and
the like?  I thought it was an engineering mock-up, sort of like the
Enterprise shuttle.  Certainly not flightworthy.  In the AW&ST article about
this, it was rather clearer, and there was no mention of any Japanese intention
to put any of their purchase into space.  This suggests that $10M is a
fair price.  Anyone got different information?

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)