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  1. Size of "station" by Anarchofascist · · Score: 1 · on New Russian Space Station 'Real Possibility'
    Have a good, close look at the illustration on the front page of the mircorp website. It looks like the new 'station' is about the size of a Soyuz! For the uninitiated, if you squint at the page and stand on your head you can see three roughly-identical objects stuck together. The object on the left is the Soyuz that gets you there, the one hanging down is the Progress cargo ship that brings supplies, and the one in the middle is the "station".

    The main difference between a Soyuz and a station seems to be a new ventral docking port right below the main port, for the Progress.

    This would be ludicrously cheap and easy to build and put into space, but if three people are to live there it would be awful cramped.

    That said... I'd go!

    "He's heading for that tiny moon"
    "That's no moon. That's a space station!"
    "It's too small to be a space station."
  2. Planned Hotel in Space by dragons_flight · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Russian Space Station 'Real Possibility'

    I tried submitting information on just this issue several hours ago and it got rejected. Anyway here's the scoop I had.

    MirCorp, despite the ditching of their namesake, is still in the business of space tourism. They have proposed a new space station dubbed "Mini Station 1", which would house 3 space tourists for upto 20 days at a time. They hope to make a commercial venture of it through corporate endorsements and giving clients with ultra deep pockets an out of this world vacation. This news story gives additional response from the Russian Space Agency and the spacecraft builder Energia.

  3. Planned Hotel in Space by dragons_flight · · Score: 4, Informative · on New Russian Space Station 'Real Possibility'

    I tried submitting information on just this issue several hours ago and it got rejected. Anyway here's the scoop I had.

    MirCorp, despite the ditching of their namesake, is still in the business of space tourism. They have proposed a new space station dubbed "Mini Station 1", which would house 3 space tourists for upto 20 days at a time. They hope to make a commercial venture of it through corporate endorsements and giving clients with ultra deep pockets an out of this world vacation. This news story gives additional response from the Russian Space Agency and the spacecraft builder Energia.

  4. MirCorp's Response by RedSynapse · · Score: 1 · on Mir To Crash Into Pacific

    MirCorp has released a response to the, shall we say selective, reporting of Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov's statement here. Basically what the sensational headline "Mir To Crash Into Pacific" leaves out is "unless MirCorp can get more money." It is full of typical PR optimism, but it's obvious that Mir's fate is far from sealed, and with interest from Cameron/Tito/Burnett raising 60 million is hardly improbable.

  5. MirCorp says they can save it by carbon3C · · Score: 1 · on Mir To Crash Into Pacific

    A MirCorp press statement says that not all hope is lost. If they get the money together, the Russians may not dump the station. p.s. anyone know why my anchor tag didn't work?

  6. Better story link by Tairan · · Score: 5 · on NBC Signs Up To Broadcast "Destination Mir"

    I did some searching around and found http://www.mirstation.com./news_news15. html It gives a more in-depth look at what the show hopes to do (other than draw ratings)

  7. Russians Out of Money (was: Re:Hmm...) by lebha · · Score: 1 · on Astronauts In Florida For Space Station Mission
    I think the reason for not having the motor module in place was that the Russians run out of money, and couldn't build it on time.

    Maybe Mir's commercialization will bring the needed money for Russia to continue participating in the ISS... or rather it might encourage them to forget the whole ISS business.