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To the best of my knowledge, the Soviets began to fly Mir (in stages; it's
built out of individually-launched capsules) in the early 1980s. Thus, it
won't reach 50 years until a bit after 2030. It doesn't look like it's
going to fly for that long a time.
At 10:26 AM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Wayne Neighbors, Ph.D. wrote
> I am not sure what this has to do with historical archaeology -
>unless large
> portions of it land on Earth, and the archaeologists have an
>opportunity to
>study technology from an earlier era on the ground.
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>When was Mir built? Given the new regs on cold war resources if it would
>happen to land on fed. property some agency should have to contract a study
>on whether it is eligible for the National Register. I am sure the agency
>will try and say that it no longer maintains integrety, but I guess then you
>could hope that it lands on someone of local, state, or national
>significance.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wayne Neighbors [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 10:08 AM
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>> Subject: Re: F.Y.I. - Mir?
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