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		   Mir Celebration Screen Saver
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Mir Celebration is a FREE screen saver which rotates 21 NASA images 
of the famous space station.
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- Legalese 
This screen saver is distributed as FREE, it means you can use freely.
Anyway if you distribute it you must be sure that you are distributing
this document with it.
All the images contained in the screen saver come from the NASA 
archive and are distributed as free. 
Abstract from NASA Copyright conditions:
"Photographs are not protected by copyright unless noted. 
If copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the copyright 
owner prior to use. If not copyrighted, photographs may be 
reproduced and distributed without further permission from NASA. 
If a recognizable person appears in a photograph, use for commercial 
purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity and permission 
should be obtained from the recognizable person."


- How to Install
Just double click on the "mir celebration.exe" file. 
An automatic installation process will help you.


- The Mir Station
On Feb.  20, 1986, the Soviet Union launched a modified form of the 
Salyut stations, whose series of launchings had ended with Salyut 7.  
The new station was given the name Mir ("Peace").
It is similar to the Salyuts but with a number of improvements: it 
offers expanded docking facilities, many windows, two private 
compartments, and a slightly increased interior space as the result 
of the absence of certain Salyut features.
The basic Mir core is about 17 m (56 ft) long and 4 m (13 ft) wide, 
but with the addition of the Kvant 1 science module in 1987, along 
with the visiting ferry craft, this length was nearly doubled.  
Mir orbits the Earth at an altitude of about 360 km (220 mi) and an 
inclination of 52 degrees. Small, private bedrooms are located at one 
end of the main module, along with dining facilities, shower, toilet, 
exercise apparatus, and other crew-related equipment.  
At the other end of the module is control and communications 
equipment. The normal crew size aboard MIR is two: a pilot and flight 
engineer.  The station and its equipment was designed for a 
five- to ten-year orbital lifetime, but now it had been in the space
for 13 years!


- Screen Saver Builder
This screen saver had been made with Screen Saver Builder, a software
which let you make a screen saver with your image files.
For any info about Screen Saver Builder see:

		http://www.kagi.com/giunti/

or write to Maurizio Giunti <giunti@kagi.com>

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