The Star City center plans to train up to 55 astronauts and 40 Russian cosmonauts this year, Klimuk was quoted as saying by the ITAR-Tass news agency. But many cosmonauts worry that with Mir gone, cash-strapped Russia will be reduced to a secondary role behind the United States in space. Meanwhile, as computer screens went blank in the Mir control center, workers said their futures lie with the new station. Russia will supply it using Soyuz ships to ferry crews to and from space and Progress cargo vessels to haul up food and equipment. Alexander Subakov, a Mission Control expert who helped calculate Mir's final plunge, went straight to his new job at the Russian control consoles for the international station on Friday.
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