Crisis grounds RI's space dreams

Mon, 26 Jan 1998 | Source: REUTERS

MOSCOW (Reuters): Indonesia's economic crisis has dashed Jakarta's hopes of putting a man into space, the head of the Russian Space Agency said on Friday.

"There were negotiations with Indonesia but due to, well, the latest unpleasantness with the economy they've now been suspended," Yuri Koptev told a news conference in Moscow at which he outlined plans to send Frenchmen, Americans, a Slovak and maybe a couple of Russian actors to the Mir space station.

A few weeks in orbit costs upwards of $12 million.

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