As an aside to your comment about the naming of MIR, I have been saying for a while that, completely ignoring any science or technology benefits, the ISS and ot

As an aside to your comment about the naming of MIR, I have been saying for a while that, completely ignoring any science or technology benefits, the ISS and other combined space programs have paid for themselves many times over by giving the USA and Russia something really tricky and high level to coordinate over that is nothing to do with where the nukes are pointing today. Is the best back-channel going.