386955 01: Computer simulated images illustrate Mir's descent and breakup as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, March 21, 2001. Cosmonauts assembled Mir during a ten year period beginning in 1986. Five ...
The Base Block, or Core Module, is the heart of Mir. First launched into orbit in 1986, it comprised the entire space station for over a year, before the other modules were launched. Built of two ...
Harold Cole, Sandra Ward, Sam Manuel, David Rather, Philippe Simon, Jean-Pierre Farant, Joseph Krasnec, Arkady Gouzenberg, Lana Moukhamedieva and Konstantine Mikos The docking and integration of the ...
In a close encounter of a new kind Dr. Valery Polyakov peers out of a window from the Mir core module as Discovery approaches within 37 ft. He is due to return to Earth on Mar. 22, after a record 438 ...
fter outliving communism and the Soviet Union, and helping to link the space program of the new Russian nation with that of the United States, the Mir space station met its end in the Pacific Ocean. , ...
On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and it was the third addition sent to Mir since the core module launched in 1986 ...
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