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Science 20 November 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5393, pp. 1391 - 1393
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5393.1391
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News of the Week

RUSSIAN SPACE SCIENCE:
Station Launch Hides Lingering Woes

Richard Stone

MOSCOW--As the rest of the space community readies its payloads for the scheduled launch on 20 November of the first piece of the $50 billion international space station, Russian space scientists must resign themselves to a limited role until at least 2003 as a result of their country's decision to sell NASA thousands of hours of station time earmarked by Russian cosmonauts for the $60 million needed to complete a key station component. In addition, the launch of the Russian-backed Spectrum-X-Gamma spacecraft, a $500 million international effort to study x-rays, is running almost a decade behind schedule. Even a last-ditch effort to postpone the dismantlement of the Mir space station, allowing some biology to continue, may not survive in Russia's harsh fiscal environment.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)