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If Mir was successfully de-orbited, why can't it also happen to ISS ?

Raoul — 4/28/2008 7:55:41 PM (archived)

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No NASA funded Progress vehicles after 2011 - Raoul - 4/27/2008 5:48:05 PM
- Logical, right? - pb - 4/28/2008 7:54:06 AM
- Risky after the last Soyuz??? (n/t) - Adam - 4/27/2008 8:19:42 PM
  - Soyuz has been many many times in space...And the COTS spacecrafts? (n/t) - Raoul - 4/27/2008 8:45:12 PM
    - Raoul has a point. - TB - 4/28/2008 4:04:02 PM
  - I see a 2020 version of the July, 1979 Skylab, only four-five times more massive. (n/t) - Jacob - 4/27/2008 8:42:27 PM
    - If Mir was successfully de-orbited, why can't it also happen to ISS ? (n/t) - Raoul - 4/28/2008 7:55:41 PM
      - Well...we can hope for the best. (n/t) - Jacob - 4/29/2008 4:50:49 PM

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