[FPSPACE] Re: MirCorp's money for ISS ?

[dconst+@pyrrhus.cimds.ri.cmu.edu]

> 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.

Suporting Russian workers working for ISS for free with cash coming from
operating Mir is a very nice plan.

The only problem is to see this plan through and to make Mir operations
profitable. So far this plan's execution, as well as approach to the
announced IPO, has been rather shaky ;)
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CD