[FPSPACE] MirCorp: A Good Example?

[Simon Mansfield]

 >I argue the complete opposite--that this [MirCorp} was a _bad_ 
first >effort to create a commercial space station and that bad efforts 
actually >hurt future efforts. You cannot simply say "Their hearts were in 
the right
 >place," and ignore the consequences of their actions.

I also think that MirCorp has set yet another bad example for new 
commercial space development.

It's worth noting that in the time MirCorp has been operating not once has 
a single person at the company contacted SpaceDaily. My only contact was to 
chase their PR guy for a week to get some better pixs, which in the end 
were not available.

The reason why I mention the zero level of contact from MirCorp to 
SpaceDaily is that I suspect the same is true for most of the space media 
industry, and that this reflects a belief by MirCorp that the story was 
best played in the mainstream media and kept as a gee wiz space story, and 
not a space business story.

MirCorp has made little if any real effort to win over the space industry, 
which brings us back to Dwayne's central point all along - namely, if 
MirCorp was never based on real markets, then what was the point of the 
whole exercise?

regards,
Simon