XPost: sci.space.history, uk.tech.rocketry   
   From: dinehnm@yahoo.com   
      
   I didn't think about it until the day of reentry, but it seemed like it   
   might have been well-worth sending up a last Progress flight and extended   
   the crew by a week in order to instrument Mir for the reentry. A whole lot   
   of useful information would have been generated about large reentering   
   structures that might have been applicable to Hubble and ISS as well as any   
   other large satellites that reenter.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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