The Soviet Union's Mir space station – later operated by Russia – served as an important test bed for how missions should be run over several months. Skip to main content.

The Russian Space Station Mir endured 15 years in orbit, three times its planned lifetime. It outlasted the Soviet Union, that launched it into space. It hosted scores of crewmembers and ...

KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) -- The Mir space station returned to Earth in pieces Friday, ending its 15-year, 2.2 billion-mile odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific. There was no immediate ...

Third-Generation Station: Mir (1986-present) Mir was the first permanent space station. The station has been in orbit for 13 years, and staffed continuously for the past 9 years.

A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when the Kvant module was added to the Mir core station. - back to the top - First-Generation Stations (1964-1977) ...

And while Mir survived several years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the construction of the ISS combined with ongoing failures throughout the station forced Russia to eventually retire it ...

In another incident in 1991, fragments of the Soviet Salyut-7 space station, Mir's predecessor, fell on the Andes mountains region of Argentina near the Chilean border, inflicting no damage or ...

As part of a discussion between the US and Russia during the 1990s, it was decided that the follow-up program to Mir would not be Mir-2, but instead the International Space Station. The Russian ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia’s space agency announced Monday. Polyakov’s record of ...

View Nasa. The Russian space station Mir is set against the backdrop of the blue-and-white planet Earth in this medium-range photo taken during the last visit by members of Nasa's shuttle fleet. Seven ...

Our space shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir. And then we decided to build the International Space Station together. Both countries are needed for operations, the Russians for ...

The first proper space station, Salyut 1, was constructed by the Soviet Union in 1971. Additional stations were launched during the rest of the Salyut program over the next 15 years.