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Russia Reportedly Planning Mini Station to Prolong Mir
By Irene Brown
Cape Canaveral Bureau Chief
posted: 08:59 am ET
06 August 1999
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mir_update_806The Russian news service Tass is reporting another plan to save the Mir space station: Development of a small orbital facility, called Nadezhda - Russian for hope. According to the report, a group called the People's Charity Fund for the preservation of the Mir space station is pushing a plan developed by the Moscow Aviation Institute to build the new station. Tass reports that Gennady Malyshev, a representative of the Mir preservation group, said Nadezhda is not a competitor to the International Space Station and is "a non-ambitious program of a commercial station, assimilating promising aerospace and organizational technologies of the last decade." The report had no details of what Nadezhda is, how it would be launched or how it would be used to prolong Mir's life. Tass said the project would cost "less than 1 percent of expenses for the International Space Station." "Nadezhda will be a relatively light and cheap system, largely based on the use of the Mir complex. It can serve as a training craft as well as for improving promising technologies," reported Tass. Mir is scheduled to be deorbited early next year.
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