Mir

Mir (, ; ) 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 orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's deorbiting. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and spacecraft syste

space program between Russia and the United States

first and only crewed spaceflight to travel between two space stations in one mission

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The VBK-Raduga capsule was a reentry capsule that was used for returning materials to Earth's surface from the space station Mir. They were brought to Mir in the Progress-M cargo craft's dry cargo compartment. For return, the capsule would be substituted for the Progress' docking probe before it left the space station, and then after the Progress-M performed its deorbit burn, the capsule was ejected at 120 km altitude to reenter the atmosphere independently. It would then parachute to a landing area in Russia.

spacecraft docking mechanism

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series of Russian cranes used by MIR and the International Space Station

series of geosynchronous Russian radio relay satellites

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System for reposition modules of "Mir" space station

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thumb|Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov practices using the TORU equipment in the Zvezda module on the [[International Space Station ]]

docking system used by Soviet and Russian spacecraft

controlled demolition of Russian space station Mir via atmospheric reentry over the Pacific

set of four experiments