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) ...

DOS-7 became the first module for the forthcoming Mir Space Station, ... 2001, disintegrating the record-setting space station. Russian Space Shuttle Program ...

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 ...

An era will end next February when the Russian space station Mir plunges into the Pacific Ocean, discarded off the coast of Australia after 15 years of close calls and amazing feats. Mir was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Soviets lost contact with their Salyut 7 space station in 1985, Krikalev was on the ground control team that planned the audacious in-orbit rescue mission. That role helped win the young ...

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.