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To: long-gone who wrote (13897)	6/28/1998 8:03:00 PM
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Plea for Kremlin funds to avert Mir disaster By Alan Philps in Moscow telegraph.co.uk RUSSIAN space experts believe that the Mir space station is in danger of crashing to Earth on an uncontrolled trajectory which could rain tons of debris on populated areas. Space officials had planned to guide the 140-ton orbiting station down to the Pacific Ocean at the end of next year. But Russia's financial crisis has dried up funds and designers now cannot be sure of bringing the station down in a safe place. They sent an appeal to Sergei Kiriyenko, the Prime Minister, at the weekend warning him that they need funds to keep the station manned and on course. They said: "Without a crew, if there is any fault on board, Mir could enter the Earth's atmosphere at the wrong place and heavy parts of the station could fall on populated areas and cause mass destruction." Mir, which is 12 years old, relies on the boosters of visiting space craft to keep it in the correct orbit and eventually to direct it to a watery grave. But the Energiya corporation, which owns Mir, has received no funding this year.

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