[FPSPACE] MirCorp casts a wider net

[Chris Jones]

http://www.mirstation.com/news_news18.html is a press release titled "MirCorp
to Make Historic Initial Public Offering".  They're trying to raise $117
million to fund Mir's operations (BTW, they describe Mir as "the only
independent space station in orbit today", which is an interesting use of the
word independent; they also refer to "Russia's Mir space station" and say
MirCorp is 60% Russian controlled).  Given that the IPO documentation for a
more traditional company always comes off as unbelievably pessimistic when it
describes potential problems, it should be interesting to see what MirCorp's
says.

They also seem to have mangled the George Bernard Shaw quote at the top of the
page...