Re: starship-design: Russia mulls mothballing space station

[KellySt@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/27/02 3:18:10 PM, scifox@asylum30.freeserve.co.uk writes:

>> Russia mulls mothballing space station
>> Thursday, September 26, 2002 Posted: 2:31 PM EDT (1831 GMT)
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>Just curious, does anyone know if international salvage law applys to
>spacecraft (as a type of ship?).  

I beleave it does, though only a fool would try to "claim" a few billion 
dolars worth of US teratory.

;)



>Even if not, I doubt there's been a case
>of it yet.
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>If the ISS is abandoned, like MIR was, I'd rather not see it wasted as
>dust in the upper atsmosphere.  If it were to be abandoned, I imagine it 
could
>be claimed somehow and moved to a parking orbit until the claimee could make
>use of it.
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>Sci