RUSSIA’s plan to crash Mir into the Pacific, announced last week, will have
raised cheers among NASA’s International Space Station contingent. But Down
Under there are jitters.
“It’s fair to say it’s taken a few people by surprise,” says a spokesperson
for the Australian Defence Department. “At the moment all we can say is that we
are monitoring developments.”
Next February, the Russian Space Agency plans to steer the battered 135-tonne
station into a stretch of water just 2000 kilometres east of Australia.
Opinion is divided over just how much of a risk Mir will pose as it falls.
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