Naming the MIR space station was a complicated task.  Here are the runners
up that didn't make the list:

    2001: A Pile of Spacejunk
    Air Chernobyl
    BucketniBoltski
    Comrade Edselnov's Vodka-Powered Folly
    Comrade Yuri's Shimmyin' Shakin' Space Shack
    Crater Maker
    El Space-Station-o Suck-o
    Mir miss
    Oy Veyz Mir
    Space Kabob
    Spamski-in-a-Canski
    The "Edselski 2000"
    The HindenMIRg
    The Stellar Habitrail