The many firsts of the near-Mir mission
The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, ...
Russia's insane plan to send giant mirror into space 'to light up Siberia'
Renowned Russian pace engineer Vladimir Syromiatnikov believed that an enormous mirror could be used to bounce sunlight onto ...
'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant ...
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
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On this date: Atlantis undocks from Russia's Mir space station
On this date, Jan. 20, 1997, space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the Russian Mir space station. Atlantis, on its fifth trip to Mir, made two flights around the station after undocking and ...
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Trump can use Russia’s space program to end the war in Ukraine
As Russian rocket development has stagnated ... Russia was able to maintain cosmonauts in space after the Mir space station ended its operational life. Russia might have offered to participate ...
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Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kononenko, smashes the record for the most time spent in orbit ...
in 1957 - and then Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space in 1961. That distinction belongs to Valeri Polyakov, who lived aboard the Mir space station between ...