[FPSPACE] article on documentary of private Mir purchase effort

[James Oberg]

The galactic purchase of a Russian space station
http://www.pvnews.com/articles/2009/04/06/local_news/news2.txt


By Rebecca Villaneda, Peninsula News
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 6:10 PM PDT

It was a true tale straight out of a science fiction novel - five entrepreneurs who were behind the first-ever privately funded space mission.

First-time filmmaker Michael Potter captured the ground-breaking venture in the documentary "Orphans of Apollo," which he showed at the Sacramento International Film Festival on March 30.

It was 1999 and the Russians were being pressured by NASA to de-orbit the Mir Space Station to make room for the International Space Station.
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