THE PASSENGERS OF A " BOEING 747 " WILL ASSIST A THE IMMERSION OF
SPACE STATION " MIR "







MOSCOW March 7.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Edouard Pouzyriev).  To be
able to observe the immersion of the orbiting station " Mir ", the
businessman americain Robert Citron has affrete a " Boeing 747 ".  It
is what has advertisement Tuesday with the journalists the former
cosmonaut of the USSR Moussa Manarov.  With six other Russian
specialists of cosmonautic it has ete invites has to take share has
this special flight.

According to remarks' of Foamed Manarov, the plane will go in the zone
supposee of the immersion after being flies away of one of the islands
of the archipelago of the Fiji which is in the meridionale part of the
Pacific Ocean, between Australia and America of the South During the
fall, of the fragments of the station " Mir " will scatter above the
ocean in a zone of 200 kilometres broad and of 6.000 kilometres
length.  The plane will be has 300 kilometres in the south of this
tape.  Former cosmonaut A expresses the hope which the " Boeing " "
will not be accidentally cut down by a debris of the station " and
which the flight will deroulera without incident.

Moussa Manarov pointed out that it intended to carry a video camera.
Two or three will cameras will be also montees has edge of the
apparatus so as to be able, by the means of satellite
telecommunications, to diffuse a report on line in the space centers
of the United States, has advertisement the former cosmonaut.  The
rights concerning the catches of sights could be achetes has the
company that represente Robert Citron, said Moussa Manarov.

According to this one, some 120 " tourists " will be has edge of the "
Boeing ".  To occupy one of the sieges of the apparatus each one of
them will have debourser of 5 A 10.000 dollars.  For example, it will
be necessary to pay the full price to be place close to a port-hole.


Leonide Gorchkov, one of the fathers of the station, Elena Kondakova,
Serguei Avdeev, Vladimir Titov and Moussa Manarov, former cosmonauts
of the federation of Russia and of the USSR, as well as the journalist
Youri Karach, assistant of the governor of the area of Moscow, have
ete invite has to take share has this " recreative output ".  Friday,
they will fly away has destination of Japan and of they will join the
Fiji.