[FPSPACE] Mir Gyrodynes Fail To Restart

[Larry Klaes]

How about in the sales of admission tickets to whatever museum
would end up housing the Mir sections?

And wouldn't Mir be valuable in terms of the data on how much 
debris had hit it over the years in LEO, just as with LDEF?

Larry


At 11:13 AM 01/22/2001 -0500, Woods, Dave wrote:

>The question of returning Mir assets with the Shuttle have been 
>addressed a number of times.  The answer always comes up the 
>same: spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a Shuttle 
>mission to retrieve millions of dollars worth of Mir equipment 
>unfortunately can not be justified, both in terms of cost as well as
>diversion of people to prepare for such a mission.  The return on
>investment is not there, unfortunately.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Larry Klaes [SMTP:lklaes@bbn.com]
>> Sent:	Monday, January 22, 2001 10:35 AM
>> To:	Dwayne Allen Day
>> Cc:	fpspace@friends-partners.org
>> Subject:	Re: [FPSPACE] Mir Gyrodynes Fail To Restart
>> 
>> On the wild idea side, could the Space Shuttle be
>> employed to rescue all or parts of it for return
>> to Earth?
>> 
>> Larry
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