Man on a mission

An orbiting rust bucket long past its use-by date: that, at least, is how some see Mir, and NASA has certainly washed its hands of the aged Russian space station. But Jeffrey Manber, president of the company that has come up with the money to keep Mir in space, sees it as a fantastic symbol of the new world order-and a canny investment. This month, MirCorp announced thatit’s organising the first space holiday with former American space engineer Dennis Tito planning to blast off for Mir early next year. Manber talks to Hazel Muir about Mir’s future-and why he…