Mir 2

FortKnox writes: "Just when you thought you heard the end of it, Russian engineers unveiled plans for the Mir2. Fortunately, the Russian government has no plans to put this on the agenda. Why can't we all just build the ISS like good little countries??" Taking the Russian space budget into account, this seems unlikely to occur any time soon. But it's nice to dream...

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[Flying Headless Goku]

...but Russia's economy could turn around in an instant. The people are quite enthusiastic about capitalism, they just haven't quite worked it out yet, and they have a lot very bright, well-educated people in a huge country with great natural resources.

To paraphrase R.A. Heinlein, they're broke on paper, but they have real wealth, and the latter can always fix the former.

Don't be surprised if this thing goes up in a couple of years.
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