Continue ferrying supplies to Mir but stop having U.S. astronauts live on the station.
American astronaut visitations to the Russian MIR space station extended this spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
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It will be also be in roughly the same orbit as the Russian space station Mir.
To find out whether you can see it, check the Mir viewing tables.
The Russian Space Agency says it has government funding to keep Mir in orbit until August.
Now Germany is worried about the possibility that Mir could drift even further off course.
Japanese experts will be present in the Russian control room that brings down Mir.
According to Linenger, there have been previous problems with the docking operations on Mir.
Even Vladimir Lobachev, Mir's mission-control chief, admitted that the vessel might eventually have to be abandoned.
Its worth noting the other players are also pushing the field of ssRNA approaches to miR-based targets.
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The chief lobbyist for Mir is the Energiya rocket corporation, which built and owns the orbiting laboratory.
Bella will spend eight days on Mir before returning to Earth with the craft's current commander, Padalka.
After that it is up to the Energiya rocket corporation which owns Mir to find private sponsors.
Khatami has openly sided with the challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi, as has the reformist Grand Ayatollah Montazeri.
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He was headed to the Russian Space Station, Mir, where he would spend spend five months in orbit.
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Although Mir has suffered a large number of tiny impacts over the years, it has sustained no damage.
The organisers also hope president General Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali will also attend.
The first orbital voter was astronaut David Wolf in 1997 while he was on board the Mir Space Station.
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Usachev could have an easier time recovering, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
It flew a Spacelab mission and numerous International Space Station assembly missions and rendezvoused with Russia's Mir Space Station.
Thagard announced plans to leave NASA shortly after he returned from Mir .
"Of course everyone at Energiya is in favor of keeping Mir flying, " said an aide to the deputy director.
His first was 17 years ago when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Neither a spokesperson for OHL nor Grupo Villar Mir could be immediately reached.
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The Soyuz will dock with Mir this weekend as the shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center.
The strike was near the village of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal regions.
The period of instability ended in the late 1990s when an Italian made the role his own, Mr. Mir says.
Haignere, an air force pilot who visited Mir for three weeks in 1993, plans two space walks during his mission.
The United States will keep an eye on the spacecraft too, but with no specific emergency plan designed for Mir.
He had said either he or former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi would run as the reformist candidate in June.
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