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Science 24 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5496, p. 1477
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5496.1477d
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After numerous resurrections, Russia's Mir may finally be headed for a fiery death. President Vladimir Putin's cabinet agreed last week to deorbit the space station, launched in 1986, in February 2001. The decision is bad news for Amsterdam-based MirCorp, which wanted to lease the station for science and tourism. But company officials still hold out hope, with one noting that Russian officials have "killed the station at least four times" before.

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