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  2. Mir - Wikipedia

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    Mir (Russian: Мир, IPA:; lit. ' peace ' or ' world ') was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986

  3. Origins of the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    International Space Station in 2011, as seen from STS-134. Origins of the International Space Station covers the origins of ISS. The International Space Station programme represents a combination of three national space station projects: the Russian/Soviet Mir-2, NASA's Space Station Freedom including the Japanese Kibō laboratory, and the European Columbus space stations.

  4. Mir Core Module - Wikipedia

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    Mir (Russian: Мир IPA: lit. Peace or World ), DOS-7 , was the first module of the Soviet/Russian Mir space station complex, in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. Generally referred to as either the core module or base block , the module was launched on 20 February 1986 on a Proton-K rocket from LC-200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome .

  5. List of human spaceflights to Mir - Wikipedia

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    ' peace ' or ' world ') was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in ...

  6. List of Mir spacewalks - Wikipedia

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    A view of Mir on 12 June 1998 as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91 Mir (lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station, operational in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. With a mass greater than that of any previous space station, Mir was constructed from 1986 to 1996 with a modular design, the first to be assembled in this way. The station was ...

  7. Shuttle–Mir program - Wikipedia

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    The Shuttle–Mir program (Russian: Программа «Мир»–«Шаттл») [a] was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to allow American astronauts to engage in long-duration ...

  8. The Morning After: Russia teases its own space station ... - AOL

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    Android 13 is rolling out to some phones today, Russia teases its own space station as it gets ready to leave the ISS, TikTok adds an AI image generator to its app.

  9. Deorbit of Mir - Wikipedia

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    Mir three years before deorbit. After the construction of the International Space Station began in 1998, Russian resources were split between the two stations. [3] [4] [5] In 2000, Roscosmos signed an agreement with MirCorp to lease the station for commercial use, [6] with the Soyuz TM-30 mission, intended to prepare the station for future use and conduct some commercial research, being flown ...