[FPSPACE] MirCorp's money for ISS ?

[David Anderman]

I think that Mr. Jones here is missing the point.

MirCorp does not intend to subsidize ISS.

RSC Energia does not intend to re-invest any Mir profits into ISS.

The reality is that there is 1 (one) Soyuz/Progress assembly line, and only 
1 customer paying for the assembly line to function. If that 1 customer 
goes away, then there will be 0 (zero) customers paying for the 
Soyuz/Progress assembly line. This would not be a good thing for ISS.

DWA


At 03:18 PM 10/17/2000 -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
>Why should MirCorp be subsidizing the ISS flights at all?  Why should Energia
>plow any excess funds (i.e. profits) from Mir operations back into ISS
>operations?  Any desire to do so says to me that Energia and the Russian
>government aren't as separate as they're made out to be.