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The governing body of Russia's lower house of parliament is set to consider on Tuesday a draft resolution introduced by the Communist faction for preventing next month's planned deorbiting of the Russian space station Mir, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said on Monday. The coordinating council of the People's Patriotic Union approved the draft after speeches at a council meeting on Monday by State Duma (lower house) speaker Gennady Seleznyov and Duma deputy Svetlana Savitskaya, a former cosmonaut, Zyuganov has told Interfax. The resolution would recommend that the president and government urgently set up a commission to prevent Mir's being sent plunging back to Earth over the Pacific ocean and consider keeping it in use. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Russians Protest Impending Destruction of Mir
Moscow (AFP) Feb, 9, 2001Some 200 people rallied in front of Moscow's city hall Thursday to protest against the impending destruction of the Mir space station, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported. "We cannot agree with Mir's impending demise," cosmonaut Vitaly Sevastyanov told the rally, adding that Mir was still in working order and could continue functioning until December 2004. |
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