Mir?s crew have fixed problems that were causing air leaks. But Russia may have to evacuate the aging space station in June anyway?The dinosaur will be kept it in orbit in case there is money for more missions. Although crew have found and sealed one of the cracks left in the hull by a collision with a cargo ship in 1997, which caused air to leak from the station, it will have to be evacuated due to a chronic lack of cash funding. Moscow’s refusal to ditch accident-prone space station has already angered the United States, which suspects Russia is diverting resources for the $60 billion International Space Station, where it is one of the main contractors, to Mir.?As we have problems with financing a new mission and our future is unclear, it is reasonable to switch to the system of so-called visiting missions,? said Viktor Blagov, deputy head of the Mir program. Mir, initially designed to stay in orbit for five years, has already outlived its life span nearly three times. ?When we have found the money and put together a program, a new mission will go,? Blagov said.Russian space officials insist that the Mir program is funded by private money and has no impact on the International Space Station, which is already way behind schedule, partly because of long Russian delays. Blagov said the two cosmonauts aboard Mir, Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kaleri, were due to abandon the craft in mid-June after preparing it for months of hibernation. Blagov said the station was in good working order despite a short circuit in a U.S.-made solar panel which destroyed some cables and deprived Mir of a fair amount of its energy supply. Officials have said they might have to spin the station out of orbit and into the ocean in August if no new money is made available by that time.