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Have you ever considered that the MIR space station might not actually exist? With the US government planning their own "space station" in 1999, a different shade of black comes over the picture if I tell you that mankind has already landed on Mars. Mars has actually been colonised, soon after the MIR "space station" was launched. But the so-called "space station" on board isn't everything's it's cracked up to be (no pun intended). No one except NASA is monitoring these things so it's getting pretty easy to hide these sorts of things.
When the rocketship blasted into space all that time ago, along with it's human cargo, and necessary sustenance, it also contained frozen embryos. Disgusting I know, but then the truth can paint unpretty pictures. Using technology known only in phrases like "Warp factor 9, Scotty", the pioneers colonised the planet by early 1993. They can't venture outside their landing craft/living quarters much but this isn't a problem, especially now that there's some Australian on board who can't understand Russian and whose jumpsuit won't fit. But I digress. The living quarters are all that have to be seen on the TV linkup and it is rumoured that in one of the early TV shots, one of the crew had not stuck up a picture of the earth's sunrise on the window like he should have, and you could see a landscape of Mars. This I can neither confirm nor deny.
On the other hand, one thing I can confirm is the reason that the Soyuz resupply ship was sent up. It is true that they were to resupply the "mars station" and it is true that one of the Ruskies had unwittingly cut a vital cable. However, the reason why we couldn't receive transmissions from them was because the Mars planet was in a geometrical pattern with our own planet and our moon that made interplanetary communication impossible. The Soyuz ship sent up in 1997 did give them tools to fix a cable. Rumour has it that this cable was actually the one that connects their coffee grinder to the warp drives to make some very strong coffee, the sort of hit that would last the entirety of three series of Gillagan's Island and increases productivity, but only if they know they can have MORE coffee. We all know coffee withdrawls can be very unnerving and stressful. Put three men together in confined spaces and take away their addiction and trouble will surely brew.
The American's are planning on landing on Mars about the same time as the Sydney Olympics (September 2000) when all eyes will not be pointing skywards. They're going to colonise the other pole of Mars and just like the Arctic and Antarctica on earth, the duelling nations will battle it out to see how much Mars each country can get, rather than claim it for mankind.
The reason that the governments are doing this is that because Earth may one day become a lost cause environmentally (pray this won't happen), the governments will have already founded a new planet with a new infrastructure. The old planet (ours) can be abandoned in anarchy as a testament to a world that might have been, a mere pawn in the chessboard of the Intergalactic My Planet is Better Than Your Planet Contest.
Please note that this theory does not attempt to explain Jodie Foster's pregnancy, nor any connection to what really happened in the movie "Contact". I haven't seen this movie yet, but then again hardly anyone else did. And just in case you're wondering, the "MIR space station" that can be viewed from earth is actually just a volkswagon that someone took up once and never bothered to bring home. Whose going to get close enough to look?