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MIR CORPORATION ON STOCK EXCHANGE TO SAVE MIR SPACE STATION

NEW YORK, The private-controlled Mir Corporation, that owns the right on Russian Mir space station, decided to go on stock exchange in order to collect 117 USD million to renew the old space station. According with Jeffrey Manber, CEO of the Corporation, the idea is to transform the station in a sort of space touristic village for multi-millionaires.

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 3005
Rome, Italy, 10/13/2000 17:15
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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